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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "BILLINGTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Billington	Bedfordshire	Billington .-- par. and eccl. dist., SW. Bedfordshire, 2 miles SE. of Leighton Buzzard, 1209 ac., pop. 426.	Bartholomew
  Billington	Lancashire	Billington , township, in par. and 5½ miles NE. of Blackburn, NE. Lancashire, 3139 ac., pop. 1410.	Bartholomew
  Billington	Staffordshire	Billington , liberty, Bradley par., in W. of co. and 2 miles SW. of Stafford. Billington Bury , an ancient British camp	Bartholomew
  BILLINGTON	Bedfordshire	BILLINGTON , a chapelry in Leighton-Buzzard parish, Beds; on the river Ouse, and the Leighton and Luton railway, 2 miles	Imperial
  BILLINGTON	Staffordshire	BILLINGTON , a liberty in Bradley parish, Staffordshire; 2 miles SW of Stafford. Billington Bury here is an ancient British camp	Imperial
  BILLINGTON	Lancashire	BILLINGTON , a subdistrict in Blackburn parish and district, Lancashire. It comprises the township of Billington-Langho and three other townships	Imperial
  BILLINGTON-LANGHO	Lancashire	BILLINGTON-LANGHO , a township-chapelry in Blackburn parish, Lancashire; on the Blackburn and Clitheroe railway, 5½ miles NNE of Blackburn	Imperial
  BLACKBURN	Lancashire	Billington subdistrict, containing Billington-Langho, Dinkley, Salesbury, and Wilpshire townships in Blackburn parish; Mellor subdistrict, containing Mellor, Balderstone, Osbaldeston, Clayton	Imperial
  BRADLEY	Staffordshire	Billington and Woollaston; and its Post Town is Church-Eaton, under Stafford. Acres, 3,376. Real property, £8,752. Pop., 597. Houses	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Billington, Egginton, Heath-and-Reach, and East Hyde. The deanery of Fleete contains the rectories of Ampthill, Apsley-Guise, Clophill	Imperial
  HAMMERSMITH	Middlesex	painter, and Mrs. Billington, likewise were residents. Thomson the poet wrote his '' Winter '' at the Dove coffeehouse, in the Lower Mall.	Imperial
  LANGHO	Lancashire	LANGHO . See BILLINGTON-LANGHO.	Imperial
  LEIGHTON-BUZZARD	Bedfordshire	Billington, and Heath and Reach. Acres, 8,768. Real property, £30,441. Pop. in 1851, 6,874; in 1861,7,312. Houses	Imperial
  STAFFORDSHIRE, or Stafford	Staffordshire	Billington, Elford, and Okeover. The Roman Watling-street, the Roman Icknield-street, and the Via Devana traverse the county. Roman	Imperial

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