Bilsborrow

Bilsborrow

St Hilda's Church
Bilsborrow
Bilsborrow shown within Lancashire
OS grid reference SD510400
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PRESTON
Postcode district PR3
Dialling code 01995
Police Lancashire
Fire Lancashire
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
UK Parliament

Bilsborrow /ˈbilzbərə/ is a village on the A6 road and the Lancaster Canal, in the Wyre District, in the English county of Lancashire. It is approximately 1 mile (2 km) east of Myerscough. Bilsborrow was a civil parish until 2003 when it merged with the neighbouring parish of Myerscough to form the parish of Myerscough and Bilsborrow.

Bilsborrow has a primary school, a post office and local shop, and a fish and chip shop, St Hilda's Church of England church and two public houses, the Roebuck and the White Bull, a canalside tavern Owd Nell's Tavern, a Premier Inn hotel, a canalside lodge, a guest house, and a themed thatched hamlet 'village' with restaurant, hotel and tavern.

In the former parish is the hamlet of Duncombe. In the 1950s there was a large paper mill at Matshead. The river Brock is crossed by Walmesley Bridge; it is dated 1883 but looks much older.[1]

Bilsborrow Methodist Chapel

References

  1. Fleetwood-Hesketh, P. (1955) Murray's Lancashire Architectural Guide. London: John Murray; p. 132

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