Description
Billingsley, a township and a parish in Salop, on a small affluent of the Severn, 3 1/2 miles WSW of Hampton-Loade station on the G.W.R., and 5 1/2 S of Bridgnorth, with a post office under Bridgnorth, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Highley railway station. Area of the township, 1302 acres; population, 121; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Sidbury, 194. Coal is worked. Lord Barnard is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory, with that of Sidbury annexed, in the diocese of Hereford; gross value, £167 with residence. The church, rebuilt in 1875, is a small stone edifice in the Early English style. Dr Thomas Hyde, who co-operated in Walton's Polyglott, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
