Stephen Oppenheimer wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can tell me how to find out if Blackhall Farm
> (North Oxford) was mentioned in the Domesday Book. Local legend in
> our road has it that this is the case, but I cannot find any
> confirmation. I suspect the original source of information was the
> first occupant of the house I live in, one Vivian Hunter Galbraith,
> formerly Professor of Modern History at Oxford.
Depends. If it is the one in Charlbury Road, OX2, the name may have migrated
from Blackhall Road, OX1, which takes its name from Blakehall recorded in
1519, and as Blackhall in 1591 (PN Oxfordshire, p.37), although other halls
with this name are known.
John Briggs
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