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.

Blackamore

Early-attested site in the Parish of Old Byland

Historical Forms

mora de Blachou c.1160 Guis

Blakemore 1301 LS

Blakoumore, Blakeowe More 1343 YD 14 HornChilde

Bla(c)kamore 1421 YD 1571 FF

Etymology

Black howe moor' v. blæc , haugr , mor .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Major Settlement