Black Country

English Etymology From the smoke and heavy industry of the area. Proper noun 1 black country en area r/West Midlands cc/England, traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. I was on a very loose end when one day, outside the Secretariat, as they call it, I ran up against a man called Fraser whom I'd known building a viaduct or something of that sort in the Black Country. en 1949 March and April F. G. Roe I Saw Three Englands–2 Railway Magazine 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. Category:West Midlands English