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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishBlackburn 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionBlackburn 

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:


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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictRibble Valley
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtBB7
Post TownClitheroe

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