In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Billinghay like this:
BILLINGHAY, a parish in Sleaford and Boston districts, and a subdistrict in Sleaford district, Lincoln. The parish lies on Billinghay Skirt, 3½ miles WSW of Tattershall r. station, and 8½ NE of Sleaford. It includes the township of Dogdyke, and the hamlet of Walcott; and has a post office‡ under Sleaford. ...
Acres, 7,630. Real property, £17,794. Pop., 2,247. Houses, 477. The property is much subdivided. Billinghay Skirt is a cut 5 miles long, from the Sleaford canal to the river Witham. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Walcott, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £280.* Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church has Norman arches, and is good. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.-The subdistrict comprises five parishes, parts of two other parishes, and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, returned with Sleaford subdistrict. Pop., 5,423. Houses, 1,100.
Billinghay through time
Billinghay is now part of North Kesteven district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Kesteven has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Billinghay itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Billinghay, in North Kesteven and Lincolnshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11571
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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