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.

Blackfan Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Bayford

Historical Forms

  • Black Fan c.1750 VCHiii,420

Etymology

is Black Fan c. 1750 VCH iii, 420 . Fan is perhaps for fen , v. fenn , with the usual Hertfordshire a for OE  as . Cf. Introd. xxiv .