Billington, Lancashire
Historical Description
Billington, a township which forms the ecclesiastical parish of Langho, in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, on the Blackburn and Clitheroe railway, 5½ miles NNE of Blackburn. It has a station, of the name of Langho, on the railway, and a post and money order office under Blackburn, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3139; population of ecclesiastical parish of Langho, 1458. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-weavers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester, value, £274 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. There are two churches, one built in 1880, now the parish church, and an ancient church, formerly the parish church, now a chapel of ease. There are Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels.
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 | Blackburn | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
Poor Law union | Blackburn |
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 Billington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Billington-Langho)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Billington are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- 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: