Bilstone, Leicestershire
Historical Description
Bilstone, a township in Norton-juxta-Twycross parish, Leicester, adjacent to the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal, 4 miles N.W of Market-Bosworth. Acreage, 713; population, 91.
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 County | Leicestershire | |
Civil parish | Norton | |
Hundred | Sparkenhoe | |
Poor Law union | Market-Bosworth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bilstone from the following:
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Leicestershire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Bilstone 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 Leicestershire newspapers online: