Description
Wilpshire, a village and a township in Blackburn parish, Lancashire, 3 1/2 miles N by E of Blackburn, with a station on a section of the L. & Y.R.,and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Blackburn. Acreage, 1002; population, 413. There is a parish council consisting of six members. There are a Wesleyan chapel erected in 1887, and a large orphanage belonging to Blackburn with about sixty orphans.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
