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“‘Black’ is an abundant place-name element
and occurs both in the ‘high places’ and at all track points.
The New English Dictionary describes it as, ‘a word of complicated history.’
It seems to derive from ‘blake’ and ‘blac’
which in Anglo-Saxon times meant, ‘shining, pale, white’,
and whose root gives us both ‘bleach’ and ‘bleak’.
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