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The Parliamentary Gazetteer’s Summary of
Billingborough, 1843.
Billingborough, a parish in the
wapentake
of Aveland, parts of Kesteven, union of Bourn, county of Lincoln ; 3 miles east by south of Folkingham. Living,
a discharged vicarage in the archd.
and dio.
of Lincoln ; valued at
£6 1s. 8d. : gross income £237. Patron,
in 1835, Earl Fortescue. The church has a fine tower and spire. The
great and small tithes of
Billingborough and Birthorpe, the property of the lord of the manor and vicar,
were commuted in 1768. Here is a free school, for the foundation and endowment of which, Mary
Toller, in 1671, gave land producing about £25 per annum. There are also three
other daily schools, containing 53 pupils, and two Sunday schools in this parish.
Pop., in 1801, 537 ; in 1831, 881. Houses
168. Acres 2,020. A.
P. £5,800. Poor rates,
in 1837, £309.
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