Blakemere or Blackmoor, Herefordshire
Historical Description
Blakemere or Blackmoor, a parish in Herefordshire, about 2 miles from the river Wye, and 5 SW of Moorhampton station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R., and 10 W by N of Hereford. Post town, Madley (R.S.O.); money order office, Ploughfield; telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage, 1121; population, 165. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Preston-on-Wye, in the diocese of Hereford; joint value, £230. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church was originally Norman, and was rebuilt in 1877; it retains a Norman arch, and has stained windows.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Herefordshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Blakemere St. Leonard | |
Hundred | Webtree | |
Poor Law union | Weobley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Blakemere or Blackmoor from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blakemere (St. Leonard))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Herefordshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blakemere or Blackmoor 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 Herefordshire newspapers online: