We could not match "BLACKDOWN" in our simplified list of the main towns and villages, or as a postcode. There are several other ways of finding places within Vision of Britain, so read on for detailed advice and 15 possible matches we have found for you:

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• You have just searched a list of the main towns, villages and localities of Britain which we have kept as simple as possible. It is based on a much more detailed list of legally defined administrative units: counties, districts, parishes, wapentakes and so on. This is the real heart of our system, and you may be better off directly searching it. There are no units called "BLACKDOWN" (excluding any that have already been grouped into the places you have already searched), but administrative unit searches can be narrowed by area and type, and broadened using wild cards and "sound-alike" matching:
  
  



• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BLACKDOWN":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Blackdown	Worcestershire	Blackdown , hamlet, near Kidderminster, N. Worcestershire.	Bartholomew
  Blackdown	Dorset	Blackdown .-- vil., Broadwinsor par., W. Dorset, 5½ miles NW. of Beaminster.	Bartholomew
  BLACKDOWN	Dorset	BLACKDOWN , a village in Broadwinsor parish, Dorset; 5½ miles WNW of Beaminster. It forms a curacy, annexed to the vicarage	Imperial
  BLACKDOWN	Worcestershire	BLACKDOWN , a hamlet in Kidderminster-Foreign, in the neighbourhood of Kidderminster, Worcester.	Imperial
  BROADWINSOR	Dorset	Blackdown, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £558.* Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is ancient, and has a tower	Imperial
  BUCKLAND (West)	Somerset	Blackdown hill, near the Bristol and Exeter railway, 2¼ miles E of Wellington. Post Town, Wellington, Somerset. Acres, 3,671. Real	Imperial
  BURLESCOMBE	Devon	Blackdown, on the Roman Port way from Somerset to Exeter, and on the Great Western canal and the Bristol and Exeter	Imperial
  HALDON (GREAT AND LITTLE)	Devon	Blackdown Hills; Little Haldon is the southern part, and has a green sand surface, overtopped, in some places, by great	Imperial
  LODDISWELL	Devon	Blackdown Hill. Yellow ochre, of fine quality, was manufactured; and there was formerly a copper mine. A spot about a ¼ of a mile	Imperial
  LODSWORTH	Sussex	Blackdown House; and has a post office under Petworth. Acres, 1,805. Real property, £2,214. Pop., 629. Houses	Imperial
  ORCHARD-PORTMAN	Somerset	Blackdown hounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, not reported. Patron, Lord Portman	Imperial
  SOMERSET, or Somersetshire	Somerset	Blackdowns are on the boundary with Dorset; the Quantocks and the Brendons finely diversify the E and the central parts	Imperial
  TAUNTON	Somerset	Blackdown hills. The town has spread, in all directions, beyond its old limits; and it now includes a portion called	Imperial
  Wellington	Somerset	Blackdown hills, 8 miles SW. of Taunton by rail, 5195 ac., pop. 6360; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market	Bartholomew
  WELLINGTON	Somerset	Blackdown hills, 6½ miles SW by W of Taunton; gives the titles of Viscount, Earl, and Duke to the family	Imperial

  It may also be worth using "sound-alike" and wildcard searching to find names similar to your search term:
  
  



• Place-names also appear in our collection of British travel writing. If the place-name you are interested in appears in our simplified list of "places", the search you have just done should lead you to mentions by travellers. However, many other places are mentioned, including places outside Britain and weird mis-spellings. You can search for them in the Travel Writing section of this site.



• If you know where you are interested in, but don't know the place-name, go to our historical mapping, and zoom in on the area you are interested in. Click on the "Information" icon, and your mouse pointer should change into a question mark: click again on the location you are interested in. This will take you to a page for that location, with links to both administrative units, modern and historical, which cover it, and to places which were nearby. For example, if you know where an ancestor lived, Vision of Britain can tell you the parish and Registration District it was in, helping you locate your ancestor's birth, marriage or death.