Description
Blackford, a parish in Somersetshire, 4 1/2 miles WSW of Wincanton, and 3 from Sparkford station on the G.W.R. Post town, Wincanton. Acreage, 724; population, 118. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £152 with residence. The church is Early English, with a fine Norman entrance-arch, and was restored in 1880. There is a Wesleyan cliapel. A beautiful spring rises here called the Nun's Well.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
