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[[File:Geograph-2557128-by-JThomas.jpg|500px|right|thumb|The Angel Inn / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/more.php?id=2557128 J. Thomas].]]
[[File:Geograph-2557128-by-JThomas.jpg|500px|right|thumb|The Angel Inn / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/more.php?id=2557128 J. Thomas].]]
[[File:Blyth.jpg|500px|thumb|right|May Day at Hodsock priory, Blyth / [http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g504060-i77494181-Blyth_Nottinghamshire_England.html#77494317 TripAdvisor.com], uploaded by user George B.]]
[[File:Blyth.jpg|500px|thumb|right|May Day at Hodsock priory, Blyth / [http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g504060-i77494181-Blyth_Nottinghamshire_England.html#77494317 TripAdvisor.com], uploaded by user George B.]]<div class="no-img">
<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-10. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p><div class="no-img">
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<p>The north Nottinghamshire village of Blyth is mentioned twice in the ''[[Gest of Robyn Hode|Gest]]'' (see Evidence below). It is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), where it occurs as "Blide".<ref>{{:Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a}}, p. 68.</ref> The village is located on the A1, the Great North Road. In the Middle Ages it was a rather more substantial town than now. It had two leper hospitals, a priory, three hermitages as well as markets and fairs. Of its former glory little now remains.<ref>See [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/doubleday/blyth1.htm Nottinghamshire History: The departed glories of Blyth.]</ref></p>
<p>The north Nottinghamshire village of Blyth is mentioned twice in the ''[[Gest of Robyn Hode|Gest]]'' (see Evidence below). It is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), where it occurs as "Blide".<ref>{{:Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a}}, p. 68.</ref> The village is located on the A1, the Great North Road. In the Middle Ages it was a rather more substantial town than now. It had two leper hospitals, a priory, three hermitages as well as markets and fairs. Of its former glory little now remains.<ref>See [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/doubleday/blyth1.htm Nottinghamshire History: The departed glories of Blyth.]</ref></p>{{#ask:[[Category:Records ({{PAGENAME}})]]|format=embedded|embedformat=h3|columns=1|limit=1000|sort=Utitle|intro=<h2>Records</h2><div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed records" data-expandtext="Show records" data-collapsetext="Hide records">|outro=</div>}}
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== Quotations ==
{{quote|[''Gest''; c. 1500:]<br/>My purpos was to have dyned to day<br/>At Blith or Dancastere<ref>''[[Gest of Robyn Hode]]'', st. 27.</ref><br/>
<br/>For better chepe I myght have dyned<br/>In Blythe or in Dankastere<ref>''[[Gest of Robyn Hode]]'', st. 259.</ref>}}


=== Quotations ===
== Sources ==
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=== Sources ===
* [[Gest of Robyn Hode|A Gest of Robyn Hode]] (Child 117), sts. 27, 259.
* [[Gest of Robyn Hode|A Gest of Robyn Hode]] (Child 117), sts. 27, 259.
* {{:Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a}}, pp. 68-69.
* {{:Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a}}, pp. 68-69.


=== Maps ===
== Maps ==
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101602110#zoom=4&lat=2192&lon=6434&layers=BT O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1885; surveyed 1885)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101602110#zoom=4&lat=2192&lon=6434&layers=BT O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1885; surveyed 1885)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101602107#zoom=4&lat=1954&lon=6236&layers=BT O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1900; rev. 1897)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101602107#zoom=4&lat=1954&lon=6236&layers=BT O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1900; rev. 1897)]
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* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101602101#zoom=4&lat=2159&lon=6392&layers=BT O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1950; rev. 1948).]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101602101#zoom=4&lat=2159&lon=6392&layers=BT O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1950; rev. 1948).]


=== Background ===
== Background ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyth,_Nottinghamshire Wikipedia: Blyth, Nottinghamshire.]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyth,_Nottinghamshire Wikipedia: Blyth, Nottinghamshire.]
* [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/doubleday/blyth1.htm Nottinghamshire History: The departed glories of Blyth.]
* [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/doubleday/blyth1.htm Nottinghamshire History: The departed glories of Blyth.]


=== Also see ===
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* [[Place-names in Gest of Robyn Hode]].
 
=== Notes ===
== Notes ==
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Latest revision as of 00:28, 6 January 2021

Locality
Coordinate 53.377072, -1.061938
Adm. div. Nottinghamshire
Vicinity 16 km SSE of Doncaster
Type Settlement
Interest Literary locale
Status Extant
First Record c. 1500
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Blyth.
The Angel Inn / J. Thomas.
May Day at Hodsock priory, Blyth / TripAdvisor.com, uploaded by user George B.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The north Nottinghamshire village of Blyth is mentioned twice in the Gest (see Evidence below). It is first mentioned in Domesday Book (1086), where it occurs as "Blide".[1] The village is located on the A1, the Great North Road. In the Middle Ages it was a rather more substantial town than now. It had two leper hospitals, a priory, three hermitages as well as markets and fairs. Of its former glory little now remains.[2]

Quotations

[Gest; c. 1500:]
My purpos was to have dyned to day
At Blith or Dancastere[3]

For better chepe I myght have dyned
In Blythe or in Dankastere[4]

Sources

Maps

Background

Also see


Notes

  1. ↑ Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), p. 68.
  2. ↑ See Nottinghamshire History: The departed glories of Blyth.
  3. ↑ Gest of Robyn Hode, st. 27.
  4. ↑ Gest of Robyn Hode, st. 259.


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