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Blackland is 2 miles South East of Calne. Grid ref SU013685.
Modern map of the area - link to Multimap
Information and links for indexes including a complete marriage index for Wiltshire are in a page on church records and indexes .
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Blackland
Annette Nelson has transcribed church records from various sources at Wiltshire and
Swindon Archives. We have:
baptisms 1606-1850
marriages 1594-1835
burials 1594-1850
There is a key to abbreviations and explanation of format of this list common to all parishes.
"BLACKLAND, a parish in the hundred of Calne, in the county of Wilts, 2 miles from Calne, its post town. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury, of the value of £160, in the patronage of the Rev. James Mayo. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Blackland House, the principal mansion, was formerly the seat of the Mannell family."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)