Black Carr Thornton or Haiifax

[ambler]

 Hi all

Thanks all for the info on Black Carr i have recently seen an entry that i believe refers to a sale/debt trade of Black Carr or Blakker as it was written in 1522 .Where a John Milner surrendered Blakker in Northowram to Richard Ambler of Brookhouse, can anyone add any info?

Ian
 

[johnnyboy]

Hi Ambler: I think you may be talking about two different places named Black Carr here. A carr is a topographic feature: a pond or pool; a bog or fen; now, usually, wet boggy ground; a meadow recovered by draining from the bog. There could many of them in the same area, such as in Thornton and Northowram, which are several miles apart.

Interestingly, there is a Brookhouse just to the northwest of Illingworth, which is only a few miles from Thornton. Go to Bing and search Brookhouse, Yorkshire, England. Then click on Maps and you'll see it.

Hope this helps.

John