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.

Blacker Beck & Blacker Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Thornhill

Etymology

, doubtless named from Blacker Hall in the adjacent township of Crigglestone(102supra ) ; but the Blacker family was fairly common in this parish too ( 16–17 PRThl freq ) .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement