Description
Billington, a township which forms the ecclesiastical parish of Langho, in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, on the Blackburn and Clitheroe railway, 5 1/2 miles NNE of Blackburn. It has a station, of the name of Langho, on the railway, and a post and money order office under Blackburn, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 3139; population of ecclesiastical parish of Langho, 1458. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-weavers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester, value, £274 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. There are two churches, one built in 1880, now the parish church, and an ancient church, formerly the parish church, now a chapel of ease. There are Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
