Blackwater, Isle of Wight
Historical Description
Blackwater, a hamlet in the Isle of Wight, 2 miles S by E of Newport. It has a post office under Newport, which is the money order and telegraph office.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Blackwater 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)
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.