English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

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Black Dub

Other OS name in the Parish of Crosby Ravensworth

Historical Forms

  • -dobbs 1588 PR(R)

Etymology

, 1777 M , -dobbs 1588 PR(R) , ' black pond ' , v. blæc , dubb , the source of the Lyvennet .