English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Bluewath Beck

Early-attested site in the Parish of Egton

Historical Forms

  • Blawyth a.1133 Whitby
  • Blawath 13 Guis 1252 YI

Etymology

'Dark, (possibly) cheerless, exposed ford' v. blar , vað and cf. Blawath 82supra . The modern form arose from the dialect change of ON á to [iə] and then from the development of a glide-vowel [u] before the following w .

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