Description
Blakemere or Blackmoor, a parish in Herefordshire, about 2 miles from the river Wye, and 5 SW of Moorhampton station on the Swansea, Brecon, and Hereford branch of the M.R., and 10 W by N of Hereford. Post town, Madley (R.S.O.); money order office, Ploughfield; telegraph office, Staunton-on-Wye. Acreage, 1121; population, 165. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Preston-on-Wye, in the diocese of Hereford; joint value, £230. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Hereford. The church was originally Norman, and was rebuilt in 1877 ; it retains a Norman arch, and has stained windows.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
