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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>{{#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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* [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.]


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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]

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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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