Blackford (near Milborne-Port), Somerset Family History Guide

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Blackford (near Milborne-Port) or Blackford near Wincanton is a chapelry of Maperton Ancient Parish in Somerset.

Alternative names: Blackford near Wincanton

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1684
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1594

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Blackford Parish Registers

Baptism, Marriage and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers.

Blackford Somerset Church of England Baptisms Marriages and Burials 1531-1812

Blackford Somerset Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914

Marriage and Banns Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of marriages and banns records.

Blackford Somerset Marriage Registers Bonds and Allegations 1754-1914

Death and Burial Records

These records include images of Church of England parish registers of deaths and burial records.

Blackford Somerset Church of England Burials 1813-1914

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BLACKFORD, a parish in Wincanton district, Somerset; 4½ miles WSW 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.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

National Library of Scotland Maps – includes OS 25 inch 1892-1918 maps, a vast range of other historical OS maps and land use maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

  • County: Somerset
  • Civil Registration District: Wincanton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Wells
  • Diocese: Bath and Wells
  • Rural Deanery: Cary
  • Poor Law Union: Wincanton
  • Hundred: Whitley
  • Province: Canterbury