Feedback request: Onopordum acanthium (26175)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #349958

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Onopordum acanthium L. ("Cotton Thistle")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Onopordum acanthium L. ("Cotton Thistle")
Collection date:	1868
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Foxley Hatch, Purley, TQ36, Brighton Road, near Foxley Hatch [TQ3161]
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by oldnick on 14^th December 2012.

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date	user	change
14/12/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Foxley Hatch, Purley, Brighton Road, near Foxley Hatch
14/12/2012	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17 Foxley Hatch, Purley, Brighton Road, near Foxley Hatch [TQ3161]

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oldnick wrote

I couldn't locate Foxley Hatch - near Beeby's usual area of Croydon perhaps?

[manchester]

A pub just off Brighton Road in Purley

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=foxley+hatch&hl=en&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=foxley+hatch&hnear=0x4875d8a820781111:0x7ef1a4794151ace1,Weybridge&cid=0,0,5618648014597695426&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A

approx TQ3161


OS Grid reference TQ3161

[oldnick]

Thanks! Interesting to know year pub built - might match?

[oldnick]

Seems to be a modern building, converted to a pub 1993: 'The name of this Wetherspoon pub recalls the Foxleyhatch Turnpike which stood in this vicinity. The turnpike was a private road on which a toll was paid. The name 'Foxley' is from the Old English 'fox and leah' (meaning a clearing for foxes), and survives in nearby Foxley Lane'.

[Tom Humphrey]

The pub appears to be modern, but named after Foxley Hatch Turnpike [pdf], established by an Act of 1807.

EDIT: posting at the same time as you...