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Survey of English Place-Names

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Blacker Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Emley

Etymology

, 1842TA , named from the Blacker family , common here from the seventeenth century ( PREm passim ) , cf. Blacker i, 292supra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site