Description
Billington, a parish in Beds, on the river Ouse, 2 miles SE of Leighton-Buzzard, and 1 1/2 mile W from Stanbridge Ford station on the L. & N.W.R. Post town, Leighton-Buzzard, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1209 ; population, 350. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £278 with residence. Patrons, the inhabitants. The church is a small building chiefly in the Late Decorated style, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. The country seat of Billington Manor stands in this parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
