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Rh BLACKHEATH HUNDRED. 287 BLACKPOOL. Fift a years later, Henry V., returning victorious from his -cnch campaign and the battle of Agincourt, was here by a state procession of the citizens of fjon n, headed by the mayor. In 1410 an interview ire on Blackhoath between the same monarch and he Emperor Sigismund. Jack Cade encamped ii his followers in 1450; and here, the next my VI. pardoned those of his followers who omission to him. In 1-1152 the same king asscm- iirmy on the Heath, to oppose the Duke of York. Edw 'd IV., returning from France in 1474, was here met ' the citizens of London. A battle was fought on
 * ith in 1497, between the Cornish men, under
 * dley, and the royal forces, led by the Earl of

in which the former were defeated, and Lord c .iptured and put to death. A splendid reception u here to Campejo, the papal legate, in 1519, a loth of gold being prepared for him, and a grand in ailed by the Duke of Norfolk, going out to And, finally, on this spot took place interview between Henry VIII. and Anne of i celebrated at Greenwich. Blackheath has two s All Saints' and St. John's. The former is situ- in the par. of Lewisham, and the latter in that ii. The livings of both are perpct. curs., tner in the patron, of the Vicar of Lewisham, latter in the gift of William Angerstein, Esq. ; pels. In the vicinity are the college, ! by Sir John Morden for decayed merchants ; free grammar school, erected by Abraham Colfe . [See LEWISHAM.] The Hanger's House, known I'ark Lodge, late the seat of the Earl of Aber- now inhabited by Prince Arthur. It was once lence of the Princess Sophia of Gloucester, and formerly stood the residence of the Princess of Park-place, or Blackheath-park, is a range of
 * lie. marriage being immediately after (3rd Janu-
 * io dwellings, on the site of Wricklemarsh House,

did mansion built by Sir Gregory Page, which ,' n down in 1787. KHEATH HUNDRED, one of the 8 hunds. i visions of the lathe of Sutton-at-Hono, in the co. t, sur'-ouuded by the hunds. of Lessness and , and Beckcnham, the co. of Surrey, and the hames. It contains the pars, of Charlton-next- ich, Eltham, Lee, and Lewisham. The area of d. is about 12,650 acres. KHEATH HUNDRED, one of the 14 hunds. livisions of the co. of Surrey, situated in the div. of the co., and bounded on the N. by the t Woking ; on the E. by the hund. of Wootton ; S. by the co. of Sussex ; and on the W. by the I Uodalming. It is in two divs., called first n:; aid. The first div. contains the pars, of Alford, , Dunsfold, Hascombe, St. Martha, Shalford, 'iiiTsh. The second div. contains the pars, of . i 'ranley, Ewhurst, and Shore. The entire hund. irea of about 41,000 acres. i| BDCKIIEDDON, a tnshp. in the par. of Stamford-
 * id:ilo ward, in tho co. of Northumberland, 10

HUeeb the S.W. of Morpeth. The Tindale hounds nir i tin 1 village. A LAND, a par. in the hund. of Came, in tho co. - liVilts, 2 miles from Calne, its post town. Tho minis a reet. in the dioc. of Salisbury, of the val. o: the patron, of the Rev. James Mayo. The
 * .'-cliunfis dedicated to St. Peter. Blackland House, the

i mansion, was formerly the seat of the Maun- drt : m!y. ' KLAND, a tythg. in the par. and hund. ot n the co. of Wilts, not far from Calne. JKLAW, a vil. in the par. of Linton, in the co. urgh, Scotland, 4 miles from Kelso. Thomas Acre i.1789. , BL JKLEY, or BLAKELEY, a chplry. in tho par. (Iff Mahhoster, hund. of Salford, in the co. palatine o: ,.- Lanc;i IT, 3 miles to the N. of Manchester, its posl .-.-town. The workpeople are principally employed in the various branches of tho cotton manufacture. The living .3 a rect.* in the dioc. of Manchester, of the val. of 150, n the patron, of the Dean and Chapter of Manchester. The church, which was anciently a private chapel belong- ng to Blackley Hall, is dedicated to St. Peter. Tho Wesleyans and Unitarians have chapels in tho town, and there is a school with a small endowment. Annual MM fake place here in the month of August. BLACKLION, a vil. in the bar. of Skyrne, in the co. of Meath, prov. of Leinster, Ireland, 6 miles to the S. of Slane. BLACKMANSTONE, a par. in the hund. of Worth, .atho of Shepway, in the co. of Kent, 3 miles to the N. of New Romney, ita post town. It is included in tho ib. of Romney Marsh. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Canterbury, of the val. of 44, in the patron, of the archbishop. The church has long been in decay. BLACKMILL, a vil. in the par. of Llandyfodog, mnd. of Ogmore, in the co. of Glamorgan, South Wales, 5 miles to tho W. of Llantrisaint. A branch of the river Ogmore runs near it. BLACKMOOR-FOOT, a hmlt. in the chplry. of Lin- thwaitc, and par. of Almondbury, wap. of Agbrigg, in the West Riding of the co. of York, not far from Hud- dcrsfield. BLACKMORE, a par. in the hund. of Chelmsford, in the co. of Essex, 7 miles to the S.W. of Chelmsford. Ingatestone is its post town. It was the site of a priory of the Augustine order, founded by Adam and Jordan de Sampford in the latter half of the 12th century, and valued at tho Dissolution at 85. It was granted by Henry VIII. to Cardinal Wolsey, but on his subsequent attainder returned to the crown. Tho king frequently resided in the house ; and tho royal favourites, who were often entertained here, designated it Jericho. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Rochester, of the val. of 83, in the patron, of the Crickett family. The church, a small building, was the conventual church of the priory, and is dedicated to St. Lawrence. Tho chari- table endowments of the parish amount to 54 per annum. BLACKMORE, a tythg. in the par. and hund. of Melksham, in the co. of Wilts, 2 miles from Melksham. BLACKNESS, a vil. in the par. of Carriden, in tho co. of Linlithgow, Scotland, 5 miles to the E. of Lin- lithgow, and 18 miles to the W. of Edinburgh. It is seated on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, and is a very ancient place. From the various Roman remains which have been found here, it is conjectured to have been a Roman station. It had once a thriving trade as the port to Linlithgow, and has an old castle which was used as a state prison in the reigns of James I. and Charles I. This fortress was one of the four in Scotland which it was agreed at the Union should be kept up. It stands on a small tongue of land stretching into tho Forth. The harbour is destroyed. Tho trade of tho village is unimportant, and the fortifications are merely nominal. BLACKPOOL, formerly a chplry. in the par. of Bispham, hund. of Amounderness, in the co. palatine of Lancaster, but recently constituted a district par. under Lord Blandford's Act, except a small portion on the north side, which still belongs to Bispham, is 4 miles to the S.W. of Poulton, and 48 miles from Manchester by the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, with which it is connected by a short branch line from Poulton Junction. A new line has lately been completed direct to Lytham, and a handsome pier is in course of construction, which will be opened in 1863. It is situated on the coast of tho Irish Sea, between the estuaries of the Wyrc on the north and theRibble on the south, and has taken its name from a dark boggy pool near tho old scat of the Tildesieys, at the south end of the village. Up to the middle of the last century it remained an insignificant place, but has now become a favourite watering-place, frequented every summer by thousands of visitors, from the busy towns and factories and workshops of the great manufacturing province. Blackpool stands on ground considerably elevated, and enjoys the advantage of a remarkably
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