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.
Survey of English place-names
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Black Bank
Black Bank
Other OS name in the Parish of Little Downham
Historical Forms
Blak Bankes
1636
BedL
Etymology
is
Blak
Bankes
1636 BedL .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Downham Hythe
Marshal Drove
Pymore
Other OS name
Adventurers' Drove
Beild Drove
Bishop's Palace
California
Coffue Drove
Cophall
Denmark Fm
Dunkirk
Fodder Fen
Frith Head
Guildacre Fm
Headfen Fm
North Fen Fm
Otterbush Fm
Oxlode
Park Fm
The Slipe
Straight Furlong Drove
The Wash
West Fen
West Moor Fen
Major Settlement
Little Downham