BLACKWATER, a village (large), in the parish of YATELY, hundred of CRONDALL, Basingstoke division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 15 miles (E, N. E.) from Basingstoke. The population is returned with the parish. It occupies a low situation on the great western road, at the point of junction of the three counties of Southampton, Surrey, and Berks, on the western bank of the river Blackwater,. which is here crossed by a bridge: on the northern side of the road is a range of handsome buildings, appropriated as residences for the masters of the adjoining college of Sandhurst. It is principally indebted for the traffic it enjoys to the number of coaches that pass through it daily. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. A fair for cattle and sheep is held on September 8th. Blackwater is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount..