Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLACKWATER

BLACKWATER, a village in Yateley parish, on the NE border of Hants; on the Blackwater river, adjacent to the Reading branch of the South Eastern railway, 3½ miles NNW of Farnborough station. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Farnborough station, and a Baptist chapel. Sandhurst and Wellington colleges are in the vicinity.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yateley Ch/AP/CP       Hampshire AncC
Place: Blackwater

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