Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Blaikestun 1125×8 FPD c.1540

• Blaykestunam 1128 DEC c.1220×30

• Blaikestun' 1233×44 Spec

• Blaikestona 1127 DEC before1128 Rav

• Blaikeston' 1189×99 Reg 1336 Spec 1340

• Blaichestun c.1190×5 DEC

• Blechestona(') 1127 DEC 1127 Rav 1129,1154×66 Reg

• Blecestunam 1128 DEC

• Blecheston' [1199×1216]1300,1203×4 Reg

• Blekestone 1203 NbDu

• bleichestun 1128×9 Reg

• Bleichestona' 1129 ib

• Blaykestona early13th Rav

• Blaykeston' 1258×72 Spec 1314 RPD 1320etfreqto1418 Spec 1337×8 ManAccts 1338,1347,1351(p) Lond 1369×70 ManAccts 1382 Lond

• Blaykeston c.1292 GD c.1320 Ct 1339etfreqto1468 IPM 1344 GD 1345 RPD 1354 Salvin 1361 GT 1384 Spec 1586×7 Wills 1613 Man

• Blaykestone 1345(p),1376(p) GD

• blaykeston' 1349 Lond 1354 Salvin

• Blaikeston' 1380 Spec

• Blaykistun' c.1300 Spec

• Blaykiston 1325 Wills

• Blaukeston 1312 DCD 1314(p),c.1320(p) Ct

• Blakeston 1335 Ch 1343 Wills 1432 IPM 1464,1483 FPD 1685 GD 1688 Salvin 1706 Rob 1720 HC/CB129/35

• Blakeston' 1456 RepMag

• Blakestone 1376 GD

• Blaystoun' 14th Ct

• Blaykston' 1346 Ct

• Blaykston 1408 Lang

• Blaikston' 1376×7 ManAccts

• Blaxston' 1382 Hatf

• Blakston 1408 Lang

• Blaxton 1512(p)etfreqto1596×7 IPM 1580 Surv 1584,1597 Wills

• Blaxtone 1539 FPD 1581 Man 1592 Wills

• Blakiston 1629 Lond 19th GD 1644×5 Lond 1644×5 GD 1666×7 Man 1683etfreqto1809 Rob 1721,1803 TA 1844

• Blakistone 1725 Man

• Blackeston 1661 Lond

• Blackiston 1720 HC/CB22v 1723 ib

• Blaikston 1729 NRCbox8/10

Etymology

'Bleik's estate', ON  pers.n. Bleikr SPNLY 57, ME  genitive sing. Bleikes , + tūn. Bleikr is an original by-n. 'the pale one' from ON  bleikr 'pale, wan' (SPNLY 57). Blakeston may well have originated as a late grant to a private individual out of the combined Norton-Stockton estate.