Blackrock, Lancashire
Historical Description
Blackrock, a reef in the mouth of the Mersey, 3 miles NNW of Liverpool. A lighthouse stands on it, a round white tower, huilt in 1830, at a cost of £35,000, with a revolving minute light 88 feet high, showing also a fixed light at a lower elevation when there is 12 feet water in the channel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.