Blackwater River
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU7463
parish:
parish:
county:
Yateley
Hawley
Hampshire
county:
Hampshire
otherwise: Blakwatere, 1298
- river
BLACKWATER, river and hamlet of Yateley
Self explanatory. Gover attributes such names to the appearance of the river bed in sandstone areas. The river was originally called 1272 'aqua de Swalewe'; the name duplicates that of the 'Swale' in Yorkshire, North Riding. Ekwall says that the river name is related to that of the bird, citing 'move, plash' as the rather weak link connecting the meanings, but giving interesting continental cognates like Middle High German 'swalm'='whirlpool' (better perhaps 'swall'='surge (of dammed water)'). The old river name survives in 'Swallowfield' (Berkshire), through which the Blackwater flows.
- river - Holdsett Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
- river - Holdshot Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
- river - Hampshire
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- river - Hampshire
- river - Hantshire
- river - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
- Southampton
- river - Southamtoniae
rises near Farnham, flows 18m on county boundary to River Loddon below Swallowfield note place Blackwater
