Blockmoor Fen
Early-attested site in the Parish of Soham
Historical Forms
- Blokmoor 1397 Ct
- Blakemere 1415 ib
- the Block Fen 1814 Pembroke
- Blackmoor Fen c.1825 O.S.
- Blockmoor c.1840 TA
Etymology
Blockmoor Fen is Blokmoor 1397Ct , Blakemere 1415 ib., the Block Fen 1814Pembroke , Blackmoor Fen c. 1825 O.S., Blockmoor c. 1840TA . Probably 'black marsh,' but in this name, as in Blockmoor Fen, Block Moors, Block Feninfra 241, 230, 250 and Block Fen Droveway supra 132, there are difficulties. ME and EME forms in blok - may go back to OE blāc which is found side by side with the more usual blæc , 'black,' used of the dark peat-coloured marsh. They may equally well go back to OE blāc , 'pale,' but these are peat fens and black, and when covered with undergrowth, green.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Barcham Fm
- Barway, with Barway Fen and Barraway Siding
- Blakeney Fen
- Clipsall Field, Clipsall Corner
- Delph Bridge
- Old Fordey Fm
- Harrimere Drain
- The Hasse, Great Hasse Fm, Little Hasse Fm and Hasse Drove
- Henny Hill, Henny Fm
- Mettleham Fm
- No Ditch Field
- Wet Sealodes, Dry Sealodes
- Shell Fm
- Soham Mere
Other OS name
- Angle Common
- Angle Fm
- Ash Closes
- Ash Tree Fm
- Bancroft Field
- Barway Bridge
- Black Drove
- The Bracks
- Bracks Drove
- Broad Hill
- Broad Hill Drove
- Broad Piece
- Burgess Corner
- Burry Crofts Field, Castles Fm
- College Fm
- Crow Fen
- Crow Hall
- Down Field
- East Fen Common
- East Fen Drove
- Eau Fen Fm
- Eye Hill Drove
- Eye Hill Fm
- Fodder Fen
- Fodder Fen Drove
- Foxlow Field
- Frith Fm
- Gault Pit
- Goose Fen
- Goose Fen Bridge
- Great Fen
- Great Fen Drove
- Green Hills
- Half Acre Fm
- Ham Corner
- Hodson's Fm
- The Holt
- Horse Bridge
- Horse Crofts
- North Horse Fen
- South Horse Fen
- Wet Horse Fen
- Horsefen Drove
- Hundred Acres
- Lode End Bridge
- Long Dolver Drove
- The Lots
- Mere Side
- Mettleham Drove
- Mill Croft
- Moat Closes
- North Field
- Parish Bush Drove
- Qua Fen Common
- Redland Field
- St John's Fm
- Long Sandford
- Sayer's Lake Drove, Sayer's Lake Field
- Sedge Fen
- Shade Common
- Short Butts
- Small Path
- Soham Causeway
- Soham Cotes
- Soham Fen
- Soham Tunnel Drove, Soham Tunnel Drain
- Studfield Fm
- Tiger Cottages
- Tiled Ho Fm
- The Wash
- The Weatheralls