Why is the place called Blackpool?
Mckenna Hansen
2025-04-18 03:03:10
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Blackpool itself was first seen in medieval ages. It takes its name from the black pool of water was known as 'Le Pull' - a discoloured stream draining Marton Mere and Marton Moss through peat lands. The stream ran alongside Blackpool Old Road to the sea.
Rosina Connelly
2025-04-18 03:01:30
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It's named as it is because one of the local streams poured a black effluent into the sea from a peat bog it passed through. Translate ‘Blackpool’ to Irish and you get Dublin – or, technically, its etymon, Dubh Linn, though the Irish name of that city is Baile Átha Cliath. What, you were expecting Boca Raton? Well, at least Blackpool’s name doesn’t mean ‘rat mouth’. Things can sound so much less uncharming when not in one’s home language.
Anais Hintz
2025-04-18 01:54:53
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The name Blackpool was first seen in the Medieval ages. A historic drainage channel running over a peat bog, which discharged discoloured water into the Irish Sea, gave Blackpool its name. This black pool of water was known as ‘Le Pull’ due to how the peat lands in which the stream ran through discoloured the water. ‘Black Poole’ eventually evolved into ‘Blackpool’. The stream drained Marton Mere and Marton Moss into the sea and close to what we now know as ‘Manchester Square’. In 1602, ‘Blackpoole’ has its first mention on the baptismal register of the Bispham parish.
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