Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Billinge Higher End

Billinge Higher End, township, SW. Lancashire, 4½ miles SW. of Wigan, 1571 ac., pop. 1402; P.O. Billinge Hill, alt. 633 ft., has beacon on top.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Billinge

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