Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BILBOROUGH

BILBOROUGH, a parish in Basford district, Notts; on the Nottingham canal, 3 miles W of Radford r. station, and 4 NW of Nottingham. It includes the hamlet of Broxtow; and its Post Town is Wollaton, under Nottingham. Acres, 1,090. Real property, £1,788. Pop., 232. Houses, 47. The property is divided between two. Coal was formerly worked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £273. Patron, T. W. Edge, Esq. The church is tolerable.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bilborough CP/AP       Basford RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Bilborough

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