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Bilsborrow, or Bilsborough, Lancashire

Historical Description

Bilsborrow, or Bilsborough, a township in Garstang parish, Lancashire, 4½ miles SE of Garstang, and 3 from Brock station on the L. & N.W.R. It has a post office under Preston. Acreage, 852; population, 176. There is a small Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and a large paper-mill.

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 parishGarstang 
HundredAmounderness 
Poor Law unionGarstang 

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 Bilsborrow, or Bilsborough from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Bilsborrow, or Bilsborough 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: