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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bloody Shard Gate

Other OS name in the Parish of Tarrant Gunville

Historical Forms

  • bluds gate 1618 Map

Etymology

, 1869 Hutch3 , bluds gate 1618Map , near prec. on the par . bdy , v. sceard ' gap ' , geat . The early form bluds may represent a surname Blood rather than the word blood , but it has clearly influenced the change Flood - > Blood - in prec. ; Bloody no doubt represents a reduced form of Blood-way .