Blackdown (Broadwinsor), Dorset
Historical Description
Blackdown, a village in Broadwinsor parish, Dorsetshire, 5½ miles WNW of Beaminster.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Dorsetshire | |
Diocese | Bristol | 1542 - 1836 |
Diocese | Salisbury | 1836 - |
Ecclesiastical parish | Broadwinsor St. John The Baptist |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Blackdown (Broadwinsor) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Broadwinsor (St. John The Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Dorset is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blackdown (Broadwinsor) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)