Mockbeggar

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Mockbeggar is a fairly common place name in various parts of England. 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.

Among the many examples are:

• Kent
  • the several examples include: part of Collier Street village; a farm near Cliffe-at-Hoo; a place near Rhodes Minnis; and near Teynham.
• East Sussex*
  • near Rye
• Hampshire
  • near Ringwood
• Wirral
  • here are Mockbeggar Hall and Mockbeggar Wharf near Wallasey.