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Bilsborrow

Former civil parishes in LancashireGeography of the Borough of WyreLancashire geography stubsUse British English from July 2014Villages in Lancashire
St Hilda's Church, Bilsborrow geograph.org.uk 11806
St Hilda's Church, Bilsborrow geograph.org.uk 11806

Bilsborrow is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Myerscough and Bilsborrow, in the Wyre district, in the county of Lancashire, England. The village population at the 2011 census was 632. It is on the A6 road and the Lancaster Canal. It is approximately 1 mile (2 km) east of Myerscough. 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.

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Bilsborrow
Church Lane, Borough of Wyre Myerscough and Bilsborrow

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PR3 0RL Borough of Wyre, Myerscough and Bilsborrow
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