BILLINGSLEY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1831.

" BILLINGSLEY, a parish in the hundred of STOTTESDEN, county of SALOP, 5 miles (S. by W.) from Bridgenorth, containing 176 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Salop, and diocese of Hereford, rated in the king's books at £4.13.4., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Marquis of Cleveland. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Under the name Billigesleage, historians mention this place as the scene of a congress, in 1055, between King Harold and Griffin Prince of Wales, at which they engaged to observe mutual peace and amity. Dr. Thomas Hyde, Professor of Oriental Literature at Oxford, was born here, in 1636."

[Transcribed information from A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831] (unless otherwise stated)

[Description(s) transcribed by Mel Lockie ©2015]