Blubberhouses
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Blubberhouses is a small village located in the Washburn Valley in the borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, a county in the north of England. It is situated to the south of the Yorkshire Dales national park, and to the north of a Roman road and Fewston Reservoir.
The village is on the A59 road from Harrogate to Skipton.
The village contains a church, St. Andrew's Church, and is part of the parish of Fewston. The village has two cricket teams who play at a very scenic ground on the River Washburn.
[edit] Etymology
Several suggestions have been made for the origins of the name Blubberhouses:-
- From the blueberry: Hargrove's History of Knaresbourough
- From the Blue Boar, a former inn.
- Early spellings include "Bluburgh", "Bluborrow", "Bluburhouse", (1172) "Bluberhusum". These may come from:-
- Anglo-Saxon burh = "fort".[1]
- From "Blueberg" = "blue mountain".[2]
- Anglo-Saxon bluberhūs = "the house(s) which is/are at the bubbling stream"[3], with a later regularized plural; the -um form came from the Anglo-Saxon dative plural case æt bluberhūsum = "at the houses which ...".
[edit] References
- ^ Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough by William Grainge, published 1871
- ^ The Washburn by Tom Bradley, published 1895.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names" by A.D.Mills, ISBN 0-19-280074-4
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