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I recently "learned" that a street near where I grew up, innocuously called Blagreaves Lane, was named after a corruption of the term "Black Graves", so named because it is built over the site of mass graves dug for victims of the black death. I say "learned" in inverted commas as it seems to be a fact that passed me by, and now all my friends from the area quote it as a Well Known Fact.
I was wondering if since this would be fairly common occurence in the Middle Ages whether anyone had come across this name themselves, could confirm this sounds reasonable, or tell of similar place names whose meaning has been corrupted over the years.
I was wondering if since this would be fairly common occurence in the Middle Ages whether anyone had come across this name themselves, could confirm this sounds reasonable, or tell of similar place names whose meaning has been corrupted over the years.