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 .