Blakeney
Blakeney is a village in Gloucestershire, England. It in the parish of Awre and has views of the Forest of Dean. It was the site of a Roman villa, dating to 75 AD, and home to Thomas Sternhold, a groom of King Henry VIII's Robes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, UK
- Also known as: “Blakeney, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cock Inn and Church of All Saints.
Purton Hulks
Disaster remains
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Purton Hulks or Purton Ships' Graveyard is a number of abandoned boats and ships, deliberately beached beside the River Severn near Purton in Gloucestershire, England, to reinforce the river banks. Purton Hulks is situated 2 miles southeast of Blakeney.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Etloe and Purton.
Purton
Hamlet
Photo: Jim Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purton is a hamlet on the west bank of the River Severn, in the civil parish of Lydney in Gloucestershire, England. It lies opposite the village of Purton near Berkeley on the east bank of the river.
Oldcroft
Village
Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oldcroft is a hamlet in Gloucestershire, England. The village of Yorkley is to the northwest, and the hamlet of Viney Hill is to the northeast. Oldcroft is situated 1½ miles west of Blakeney.
Blakeney
- Category: locality
- Location: Awre, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.76002° or 51° 45′ 36″ northLongitude
-2.47623° or 2° 28′ 34″ westElevation
256 feet (78 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB LKNOpen location code
9C3VQG6F+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 252650263OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2655385Wikidata ID
Q4924614
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Blakeney” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Blakeney (Gloucestershire)”
- Basque: “Blakeney”
- Cebuano: “Blakeney”
- Dutch: “Blakeney, Gloucestershire”
- French: “Blakeney”
- Irish: “Blakeney”
- Polish: “Blakeney (Gloucestershire)”
- Polish: “Blakeney”
- Spanish: “Blakeney”
- Swedish: “Blakeney, Gloucestershire”
- Swedish: “Blakeney”
- Welsh: “Blakeney, Swydd Gaerloyw”
- Welsh: “Blakeney”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include All Saints, Blakeney and Blakeney Post Office.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blakeney”. Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.