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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Blackford like this:
BLACKFORD, a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; 4½ miles WS W of Wincanton r. station, and 5 N by W of Milborne-Port. Post Town, North Cadbury, under Bath. Acres, 578. Real property, with Compton and Pauncefoot, £2,839. Pop., 164. Houses, 37. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £177.* Patron, B. H. Hunt, Esq. The church is early English, with a fine Norman entrance-arch. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Blackford is now part of SOMERSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOMERSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Blackford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Blackford in Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12463
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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