Bilbrough, West Riding

Description
Bilbrough, a village and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire for constabulary, and in the N. R. for electoral purposes, 3 miles WSW of Copmanthorpe railway station, and 4 NE of Tadcaster. There is a post office under York; money order office, Copmanthorpe ; telegraph office, Tadcaster. Acreage, 1447; population, 172. The living is a rectory, and is a peculiar, without the cure of souls; gross value, £205. The church contains a handsome altar-font of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, the celebrated Parliamentarian general. Charities, £25 per annum. There is a Wesleyan chapel.