English Place-name Society

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.

Blagrove Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wroughton

Historical Forms

  • boscus de Blakegrave, bosc. de Blakingrave, Blakengrove 1268 Ass
  • Blaggrave 1287 Ipm
  • Blakegrove 1399 Pat
  • Blakgrove 1512 Ct

Etymology

Blagrove Fm is boscus de Blakegrave , bosc. de Blakingrave , Blakengrove 1268Ass , Blaggrave 1287 Ipm, Blakegrove 1399 Pat, Blakgrove 1512Ct . 'Black thicket,' see græfe infra 432–3.The Hundred meeting-place, v. supra 274. For the curious forms in -ing - found here and still more in the hundred-name, cf. the early forms of Shortengrove supra 216.