Billinge, Merseyside
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Billinge is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, that formed part of the civil parish of Billinge Chapel End. According to the 2001 census it has a population of 7,981.
Billinge is located by road approximately 5.5 miles southwest of Wigan and 4.5 miles northeast of St Helens. The Billinge parish of St. Aiden is in the Wigan Deanery, which is part of the Diocese of Liverpool.
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[edit] Etymology
Billinge may mean "(place at the) pointed hill", from Old English billa "ridge, bill of sword" and -ing "place at/people of the". The name was recorded as Bylnge in 1252.
[edit] Local government
This township or civil parish was in the historic county of Lancashire. It was in Wigan ecclesiastical parish (Deanery of Wigan) and, therefore, in the Diocese of Liverpool, previously Chester. It came to be divided into two separate townships, Billinge Chapel End and Billinge Higher End. These townships were in Wigan poor law Union. In 1872 Billinge Local Board of Health was established for the area of these two townships and two detached parts of Winstanley township (one known as Blackley Hurst and the other situated in the Carr Mill area, both lying within the area of Billinge Chapel End township). In 1894 the area of the Local Board (together with the remaining area of Winstanley township) became Billinge Urban District. In 1927 the Urban District was renamed Billinge and Winstanley Urban District. In 1974 the Billinge Higher End ward and most of Winstanley ward became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester County; the Billinge Chapel End area (including the two detached parts of Winstanley township) became part of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside County.[1]
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