Mockbeggar

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Mockbeggar is a fairly common name in various parts of England: it occurs in Kent, as part of Collier Street village; and as a farm near Cliffe-at-Hoo. It also occurs in Hampshire near Ringwood; and on the Wirral where there is a Mockbeggar Hall.

One source for the meaning of the name states as follows ^{[citation needed]}

• MOCKBEGGAR, a common house/farm name
  • First found in 1622 in a poem by Taylor the Water Poet as a name for a place where no welcome could be expected. Very fashionable from then onwards, though the names may not have been bestowed with the occupiers' consent.