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]
A waste water treatment works named Beggarington is located off Green Lane, a public bridleway.[citation needed]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Albert Hugh Smith (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire: Lower & Upper Strafforth and Staincross wapentakes. Cambridge: University Press. p. 7.
- ^ Malcolm Bull (19 April 2018). "The Calderdale Companion. B".
- ^ Smith 1961, p. 156
- ^ "Mines of coal and stratified deposits 1854 A - B". Northern Mine Research Society. Retrieved 20 April 2018.