Blyth

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

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]

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[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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