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Blaise's Inn

Other OS name in the Parish of Buckminster

Historical Forms

  • Blases Inne 1634 Ipm

Etymology

( lost ) , Blases Inne 1634 Ipm ; the home of the Blaise family , with late use of inn in its sense ' a dwelling ' , cf. Blases Moore 1652 in neighbouring Wymondham f. ns . ( b ) and John Blees and Widow Blees 1745 , both also of Wymondham , v. Reaney s. n. Blaise .