Billinge Chapel End, Lancashire
Historical Description
Billinge-Chapel-End, a township and village formed with Winstanley and part of Billinge-Higher-End into an ecclesiastical parish in 1882, from the civil parish of Wigan, Lancashire. It lies about 2½ miles from Orrell station on the L. & Y.R., and 5 from Wigan, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Orrell. Acreage, 1161; population of the township, 1983; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3042. Area of the urban sanitary district of Billinge, 4591; population, 3996. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £500 with residence, in the gift of the rector of Wigan. There is a church and Primitive Methodist and Roman Catholic chapels. Mining and agriculture are the chief industries. Billinge Hill, 633 feet high, has a beacon on the top, built in 1783, and commands a fine view of the, surrounding country. Billinge district is governed by a local board.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Wigan | |
Hundred | West Derby | |
Poor Law union | Wigan |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Billinge Chapel End from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Billinge, Chapel-End)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Billinge Chapel End are available from a number of sites:
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: