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Evidence suggests that it was a small Mercian settlement named after the family of Bloc (earlier Blochescwic, meaning "Bloc's village").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A town in Walsall borough, West Midlands, England, historically in Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9902). Full definition →
Evidence suggests that it was a small Mercian settlement named after the family of Bloc (earlier Blochescwic, meaning "Bloc's village").
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.