Bilsborrow is a village on the A6 road and the

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, in the Wyre District, in the English county of

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. The village population at the 2011 census was 632. It is approximately east of

Myerscough Myerscough may refer to: * Myerscough, Lancashire, a hamlet and former civil parish in the English county of Lancashire ** Myerscough and Bilsborrow, the larger civil parish in which Myerscough is now situated ** Myerscough College Myerscough C ...

. 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

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, a

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and local shop, and a fish and chip shop, St Hilda's Church of England church and two

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s, the Roebuck and the White Bull, a canalside

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Owd Nell's Tavern, a

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hotel, a canalside lodge, a

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

References

*''Philip's Street Atlas''; p. 159

External links

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