Blackland, a parish in Wilts, near the Roman road, 1 1/2-mile SE of Calne station on the G.W.R., and 7 miles ESE of Chippenham. Post town, Calne under Chippenham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Population, with Calstone Wellington, 344. Blackland House was formerly the seat of the Maundrells, afterwards the property of the Tanner family, and now belongs to the Brown family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury, annexed to Calstone Wellington; value, £300. The church was repaired in 1859.
