BLAKEMERE, a parish in the hundred of WEBTREE,
county of HEREFORD, 10 miles (W.by N.) from
Hereford, containing 163 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, with that of Preston upon Wye
united, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Dean of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £3,
endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter. The church is dedicated to
St. Leonard.