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Bilsborrow /ˈbɪlzbərə/ is a village on the A6 road and the Lancaster Canal, in the Wyre District, in the English county of Lancashire. The village population at the 2011 census was 632.[1] 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
St Hilda's Church
Bilsborrow Shown within Wyre Borough Show map of the Borough of Wyre Bilsborrow Location within Lancashire Show map of Lancashire
OS grid reference	SD510400
Civil parish	Myerscough and Bilsborrow
District	Wyre
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PRESTON
Postcode district	PR3
Dialling code	01995
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Wyre and Preston North
List of places UK England Lancashire 53.854°N 2.744°W / 53.854; -2.744

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 2018, John Cross Church of England Primary School celebrated the 300th anniversary of its founding by John Cross, a local Christian benefactor.

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.[2]

References

• Philip's Street Atlas; p. 159

External links

Media related to Bilsborrow at Wikimedia Commons

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