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.
Survey of English place-names
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Blackton
Blackton
Early-attested site in the Parish of Romaldkirk
Historical Forms
Blakedene
1301
LS
Etymology
'Black valley'
v.
blæc
,
denu
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Baldersdale
Briscoe
Loups
Mere Beck
Naby
West Park
Crossthwaite
Lonton
Bowbank
Skyer Beck
Thringarth
Wemmergill
Major Settlement
Hunderthwaite
Cotherstone
Holwick
Lartington
Lune Dale
Mickleton
Romaldkirk