BILSTON  , a See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• STAFFORDSHIRE

Staffordshire, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, 21 M . S.E. of See also:

• WOLVERHAMPTON
• WOLVERHAMPTON, HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER

Wolverhampton and 124 N.W. of See also:

• LONDON

London, in the See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

Black See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country . Pop. of See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

urban See also:

• DISTRICT

district (1901) 24,034 . It is served by the See also:

• GREAT

Great Western railway, and by the London & See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North-Western at Ettingshall Road station . In the vicinity are very productive mines of See also:

• COAL

coal and ironstone, as well as See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand of See also:

• FINE

fine quality for casting, and grinding-stones for cutlers . Bilston contains numerous furnaces, forges, See also:

• ROLLING

rolling and slitting See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills for the preparation of See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron, and a great variety of factories for japanned and painted goods, See also:

• BRASS
• BRASS (O. Eng. braes)

brass-See also:

• WORK

work and heavy iron goods . Though retaining no See also:

• RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics of antiquity, the town is very See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient, appearing in Domesday . The See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St Leonard, dating as it stands mainly from 1827, is on the site of a See also:

• BUILDING

building of the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Bilston suffered severely from an outbreak of See also:

• CHOLERA (from the Gr. Xo)du, tile, and Map, to flow)

cholera in 1832 . The town is within the See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of Wolverhampton .