Blakedown, Worcestershire
Historical Description
Blakedown, a place in Hagley parish, Worcestershire, with a station (Churchill and Blakedown) on the G.W.R., 3 miles NE of Kidderminster, under which there is a post office; money order and telegraph office, Belbroughton.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The full transcript of the Worcestershire section of the Return of Owners of Land, 1873.
Maps
Online maps of Blakedown 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 Worcestershire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Worcestershire 1569 is available on the Heraldry page.