Blubberhouses

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Coordinates: 53°59′37″N 1°44′43″W / 53.99373°N 1.74538°W / 53.99373; -1.74538
Blubberhouses
Blubberhouses

 Blubberhouses shown within North Yorkshire
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Shire county North Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire and the Humber
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town OTLEY
Postcode district LS21
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Blubberhouses is a small village and civil parish 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.

Cricket ground at Blubberhouses

The village is on the A59 road from Harrogate to Skipton.

The Anglican village church, St. Andrew's (designed by Edward Buckton Lamb) is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Fewston.[1] The village has two cricket teams who play at a very scenic ground on the River Washburn.[2]

Etymology

Several suggestions have been made for the origins of the name Blubberhouses:-

  • From the blueberry: Hargrove's History of Knaresborough.
  • From the Blue Boar, a former inn.
  • Early spellings include "Bluburgh", "Bluborrow", "Bluburhouse", (1172) "Bluberhusum". These may come from:-
    • Anglo-Saxon burh = "fort".[3]
    • From "Blueberg" = "blue mountain".[4]
    • Anglo-Saxon bluberhūs = "the house(s) which is/are at the bubbling stream",[5] with a later regularised plural; the -um form came from the Anglo-Saxon dative plural case æt bluberhūsum = "at the houses which ...".

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fewstonwithblubberhouses.org.uk
  2. ↑ Blubberhouses Cricket Club
  3. ↑ Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough by William Grainge, published 1871
  4. ↑ The Washburn by Tom Bradley, published 1895.
  5. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names" by A.D.Mills, ISBN 0-19-280074-4

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