Billingborough, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Billingborough, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 3 miles E of Folkingham, with a station on the G.N.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Folkingham. Acreage, 2374; population, 1123. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, e£165, including 140 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Crown. The church is Decorated English, and has a fine tower and spire. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a public hall, a reading-room and library, and two breweries and a making.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Billingborough St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Bourne | |
Wapentake | Aveland |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Billingborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1911 | 1755-1759 | 1561-1911 | 1561-1911 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Billingborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Billingborough (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Billingborough 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 Lincolnshire papers online: