Bilsby
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Bilsby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the main A1111 road between Alford and Sutton-on-Sea, east of Alford. Thurlby and Asserby are hamlets within Bilsby parish. The censuses showed a parish population of 538 in 2001 and 487 in 2011, with an estimate of 489 in 2019.
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Vinony files it under Civil parishes in Lincolnshire, East Lindsey District and Villages in Lincolnshire.
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Place details
- Locality
- East Lindsey
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- East Lindsey
- Population
- 487
- Shares border with
- Aby with Greenfield
- Image
- Holy Trinity Church, Bilsby - geograph.org.uk - 531351.jpg
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- Bilsby
- OS grid reference
- TF473766
- postal code
- LN13
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Landmarks
- Thurlby and Asserby
- Population
- Geography
- Sources
- References
- External links
Bilsby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the main A1111 road between Alford and Sutton-on-Sea, east of Alford. Thurlby and Asserby are hamlets within Bilsby parish. The censuses showed a parish population of 538 in 2001 and 487 in 2011, with an estimate of 489 in 2019.
==History== Bilsby appears in the 1086 Domesday Book with 18 households. Its name may derive from the Norse goddess Bil. thumb|left|200px|Alford – Sutton Tramway Mumby Road railway station used to be situated here. In 1897, Thurlby would have been an important junction between the Sutton and Willoughby Railway (part of the East Lincolnshire Railway) and a proposed line from a new port at Sutton-on-Sea to another in Warrington to be built by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bilsby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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