Description

Bilsby, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire, 1 1/2 mile NE from Alford station on the G.N.R. The parish includes the hamlets of Asserby and Thurlby, and has a post office under Alford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2901; population, 450. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £118 with residence. The church is an ancient edifice of stone, and there is also a Wesleyan chapel.