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Coordinates: 53°42′15″N 1°43′18″W / 53.7042°N 1.7216°W / 53.7042; -1.7216
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This article is about the hamlet near Bradley, Kirklees. For the hamlet near West Ardsley, see Beggarington Hill.

Fields near Beggarington, with the houses of the hamlet to the left

Beggarington, also known as Beggerington and Begerington[1][2] is a hamlet consisting of a few houses about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) north of Hartshead in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It is situated in a bend of the B6119 road at the junction with the road from Roberttown. Beggerington has traditionally been considered a part of Hartshead.[1] The place name means either "where the berries grow"[3] or is related to beggar.[4]

A coal mine was recorded here in the 19th century as "Beggarington Pit, Hartshead".[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Armitage Goodall (1914). Place-names of South-west Yorkshire: That Is, of So Much of the West Riding as Lies South of the Aire from Keighley Onwards. Cambridge: University Press. p. 70.
  2. ^ Albert Hugh Smith (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire: Lower & Upper Strafforth and Staincross wapentakes. Cambridge: University Press. p. 7.
  3. ^ Malcolm Bull (19 April 2018). "The Calderdale Companion. B".
  4. ^ Smith 1961, p. 156
  5. ^ "Mines of coal and stratified deposits 1854 A - B". Northern Mine Research Society. Retrieved 20 April 2018.

53°42′15″N 1°43′18″W / 53.7042°N 1.7216°W / 53.7042; -1.7216

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