Black Country

English

Etymology

From black + country - from the smoke and heavy industry of the area, well known as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Proper noun

Black Country

1. An area in the West Midlands of England, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
   • 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:

     […] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.