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Helen F
Warrington
166 of 167  Thu 26th Sep 2024 12:19pm  

I don't know. The connections I've found were either to a pond, which may have been an obvious connection to rushes but the others relate to collieries. So I'm stumped.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
167 of 167  Thu 26th Sep 2024 4:54pm  

Probably somewhere the rushes grow, perhaps poorly drained soil that created a pit. Rushes were commonly used in weaving baskets and also for spreading on floors. I would guess that the ones near pits were used to make baskets to carry the coal. There used to be a lot of basket makers in Fazeley, Tamworth and I would guess a lot of them were used on the canals to carry goods.
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