English Place-name Society

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.

Black Mires

Other OS name in the Parish of Kirk Smeaton

Historical Forms

  • Blakmire 1688 ib

Etymology

, 1764Glebe , Blakmire 1688 ib , ' black marsh ' , v. blæc , mýrr .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement