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Survey of English Place-Names

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Blackground

Other OS name in the Parish of Ketton

Historical Forms

  • Black Ground Close 1919 Sale

Etymology

, 1943Map , Black Ground Close 1919Sale ; in eModE , dial. black ' fertile ' is contrasted with white ' infertile ' , cf. White Ground Cl in f. ns . ( a ) infra , v. blæc , grund .