Blyth

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". 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.

Quotations

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

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

Sources

• A Gest of Robyn Hode (Child 117), sts. 27, 259.
• Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), pp. 68-69.

Maps

• O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1885; surveyed 1885)
• O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1900; rev. 1897)
• O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1922; rev. 1918)
• O.S. 6" Nottinghamshire V.SE (1950; rev. 1948).

Background

• Wikipedia: Blyth, Nottinghamshire.
• Nottinghamshire History: The departed glories of Blyth.

Also see

• Place-names in Gest of Robyn Hode.

Notes

 Nottinghamshire place-names 

 Place-names