Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Blackmills 1706 Terrier

• East Black Mills, North Black Mills c.1832 Yarb

• Blakemildes a1167 NCot laterhand

• blackmales 1611 Terrier

• black meales 1625 Terrier

• blackmeals 1634 Terrier

• Blackmeales 1637 Terrier

• blackmels 1674 Terrier

• Black-mells 1690,1697 Terrier

• Blackmells 1724 Terrier

• Blackmauls 1779 Yarb

Etymology

( lost ) , 1793Dixon , 1828 Bry , Blackmills 1706Terrier , East Black Mills , North Black Mills c.1832Yarb and is probablyto be identified with Blakemildes a1167 (later hand) NCot ,blackmales 1611Terrier , black meales 1625Terrier , blackmeals 1634Terrier , Blackmeales 1637Terrier , blackmels 1674Terrier , Black-mells 1690, 1697Terrier , Blackmells 1724Terrier , Blackmauls 1779Yarb , ' the black, dark-coloured soil, earth ' , v. blæc , mylde , found as a f.n. in PN Nt 288, PN Nth 268, PN Wa331 and PN YE 327 . There may have been later confusion with melr ' a sand-hill ' . Bry shows it to have been the name of the open space between New Close Wood and Swallow Wold Wood .