Blaston
Major Settlement in the Parish of Blaston
Historical Forms
- Bladestone 1086 DB
- Bladeston' 1227 Fees
- Blatheston' 1254 Val c.1291 Tax
- Blacheston 1302 Ipm
- Blathiston 1254 Val
- Blathyston' 13 Deed
- Blatherston' 1254 Val
- Blathston 1344 Nichols
- Blauestone 1086 DB
- Blastone 1086 DB 1224 RHug 13 Peake 1302 Ipm
- Blastona 1224 RHug
- Blaston 1190,1191,1192 P 1465 Wyg 1478 Peake 1526 et freq
- Blastun' e.13 1427 Pap
- Blaeston' 1165,1166 P 1174 1423 Rut 1473 Peake
- Blaestona 1167,1168,1169,1173 P
- Blayston 1507 Pat 1509 LP 1537 MinAccts 1557 Pat
- Blason 1594 Fine 1610 Speed 1611 LML
- Bladestone 1086 DB
Etymology
Possibly 'Blað's village, estate', v. tūn . Ekwall DEPN suggests for the specific an unrecorded OE masc. pers.n. Blēað , a by-name formed from OE blēað 'gentle, timid, sluggish' and showing early shortening of ēa . Fellows-Jensen SSNEM 188 rejects this since she believes that shortening of ēa in a stressed syllable would have been hardly likely by the compilation of the Domesday Survey. She tentatively suggests, rather, the Scand appellative blað 'a leaf, a blade', probably used as a byname Blað . Watts CDEPN, following Fellows-Jensen, interprets the place-name as an OE Scand hybrid meaning 'Blath's estate'. An unrecorded Blað as a by-name is likely to be early and to signify 'a blade' in its sense 'the blade of a weapon' (cf. ON knifs -blað 'blade of a knife'). As with nearby Slawston, the place-name may record appropriation by a warrior from the Viking army which disbanded in the region in 877 rather than represent a later manorial creation.
Note the typical later 16th- and 17th-cent. Leics. loss of t from the group -ston in the Blason spellings, while the d of Bladestone 1086 DB clearly represents th ð .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Blaston Hall
- Blaston Hill
- Blaston Hollows
- Blaston Lodge
- Blaston Pastures
- Chamberlayne Arms
- Cranesclose Spinney
- Dent's Spinney
- Hallaton Rd
- Highland Spinnney
- Home Fm
- Horninghold Lane
- Hovel Buildings
- Lewin's Hook
- Manor Fm
- Manor Ho
- Overclose Spinney
- Pastures Lodge, New Lodge
- Red Hovel
- St Giles's Church
- St Michael's Church
- Stockerston Cross Roads
- Sturrad Spinney
- Uppingham Rd
- The White Ho
Field
- Nine Acres
- Allens Cl
- Ashbys Cl
- Baker 's Cl
- Banks
- Barkers Cl
- Belchers Cl
- Bolt Cl
- Borsden 's Cl Borsdens Pasture Cl
- Bottom Cl
- Bradshaws Cl
- Broadholm Mdw
- Brook Spinney
- Bushawe
- Calf Cl
- Carrs Cl
- Church Fd
- Cliffs Cl
- Coles Cl
- Great Conery Little Cunnery
- Great Coningsgrave Hill
- Copy Top Coppy Long Copey
- Cow Common
- Bottom Dents Cl Dent 's Cl
- Dock Cl Top Dock Cl
- Draycotts Cl
- Bottom Dungeon Top Dungen
- Top Far Mdw
- Foot Ball Cl
- Franeys
- Franks Hill
- Gibbins 's Footbridge Cl
- Gilsons Cl
- Bottom Glebe
- Gold Thorpe
- Great Cl Upper Great Cl
- Great Mdw
- Hare Croft
- Herricks
- High Land Cl
- Highways Cl
- Hill Cl
- Hill End
- Hollow Cl
- Home Cl
- Bottom Hop Yard
- Horse Cl
- Hovell Cl
- Hudsons Cl
- Ivy Cl
- Kingstons Cl
- Land Cl
- Little Cl Little Mdw Plantation
- Long Cl
- Masons Cl
- Maydwells Homestead
- Bottom Mill Fd
- Mirabell
- Muggletons Cl
- Needhams Cl
- New Lodge Cl
- Nobles Cl
- Old Road
- The Paddocks
- Palmers Piece
- Parsons Cl
- Pasture Mdw
- Porters Cl
- Railway
- Seaton Poor Cl
- Skeffington 's Gorse
- Smock Cl
- Top Stocks Stocks Cl
- Stone Bridge
- Store Cl
- Stripe
- Tea Cl Tee Close West
- Thorn ( e ) Long Thorney
- Turnip Cl
- Wadlands Cl
- Wad Orchard Wad Orchard Plantation Woad Orchard Mdw
- Watsons Acre Watsons Acre Plantation
- Wood Cl
- Blaston parsonage
- Brechewod
- Bridge Close
- Browns
- Cockshote
- dead more
- fullwell
- gallow ( e ) hill
- greene hades
- Hall closes
- halloughton home
- Holt sicke
- Hunts lane
- hushome
- Lads willows
- maid landes
- Medburne furlonge
- the Mill Close
- the North Close
- the North feild
- Peck feild
- Ryecroft
- Slawston gate
- the South feild
- Spinney Close
- the Upper Ground
- Watts close