Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackrock

Blackrock.-- ferry, on river Severn, Monmouthshire, 4 miles SW. of Chepstow, 2¼ miles wide at full tide.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ferry"   (ADL Feature Type: "transportation features")
Administrative units: Monmouthshire AncC
Place: Blackrock

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