Description
Billinge-Chapel-End, a township and village formed with Winstanley and part of Billinge-Higher-End into an ecclesiastical parish in 1882, from the civil parish of Wigan, Lancashire. It lies about 2 1/2 miles from Orrell station on the L. & Y.R., and 5 from Wigan, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Orrell. Acreage, 1161; population of the township, 1983; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3042. Area of the urban sanitary district of Billinge, 4591; population, 3996. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; net value, £500 with residence, in the gift of the rector of Wigan. There is a church and Primitive Methodist and Roman Catholic chapels. Mining and agriculture are the chief industries. Billinge Hill, 633 feet high, has a beacon on the top, built in 1783, and commands a fine view of the, surrounding country. Billinge district is governed by a local board.
Billinge-Higher-End, a township and village in the parish of Wigan, Lancashire, 1 mile from Orrell railway station, and 4 miles from Wigan, which is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Billinge-Chapel-End and Orrell respectively. Acreage, 1571; population, 1445. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and quarries of excellent stone here. Bispham Hall is a fine old residence here.
