Blackland, Wiltshire
Historical Description
Blackland, a parish in Wilts, near the Roman road, 1½ mile SE of Calne station on the G.W.R., and 7 miles ESE of Chippenham. Post town, Calne under Chippenham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Population, with Calstone Wellington, 344. Blackland House was formerly the seat of the Maundrells, afterwards the property of the Tanner family, and now belongs to the Brown family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury, annexed to Calstone Wellington; value, £300. The church was repaired in 1859.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Wiltshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Blackland St. Peter | |
Hundred | Calne | |
Poor Law union | Calne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1757.
Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Blackland:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1606-1880 | 1770-1783 | 1594-1835 | 1594-1880 |
Churches
Church of England
St. Peter (parish church)
The church of St. Peter, situated in Blackland Park, is a small and ancient edifice of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a turret with one bell: there are sittings for 80 persons.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Blackland from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blackland (St. Peter))
Maps
Online maps of Blackland 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online: