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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Billington like this:
BILLINGTON-LANGHO, a township-chapelry 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 its Post Town is Whalley, under Blackburn. Acres, 2,960. Real property, £4,719. Pop., 1,038. Houses, 205. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-weavers. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £120. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church is ancient. There are a Roman Catholic chapel, a national school, and charities £38.
Billington is now part of RIBBLE VALLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how RIBBLE VALLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Billington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Frongoch, in Ceredigion and Cardiganshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9978
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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