Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Blatern(a), Blaterne 12 BylE 12 1247 Ch 1256 Ass10d 1282 Kendi,390 1292 QW 1577 Harrison

• Blatarne 1540 DRH 1597 PR 1648 et freq

• Bletarne 1547 Views 1691 PR

• Bletairne 1633 ib

• Blacterne (sic) 1597 NCyWills

• (the) Blaytarne, Bleytarne 1604–1652 PR

• Blaytrand als. Bletarn 1727 Dep

• Bleatarn(e) 1621 Rent 1628 PR 1704 Terr 1777 M

• Bleatairne 1630,1631,1632 PR

Etymology

'Dark pool', v. blá(r) (in the one spelling Blacterne replaced by blæc 'black'), tjǫrn , cf. Blea Tarn (i, 15supra ). Here it refers to a no longer extant pool, possibly a fishpond, from which are also named Carr Pool, Mere Bank, and Tarn Moor (infra ). On the forms Ble -, Blay -, Blea - cf. Phonol. §5.