# Bilstone
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{{Short description|Village in Leicestershire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|static_image= File:Twycross Road in Bilstone - geograph.org.uk - 926274.jpg
|static_image_caption= Twycross Road, Bilstone
|label_position = bottom
|coordinates = {{coord|52.6446|-1.46524|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Bilstone
|population=
|civil_parish= [Shackerstone](/source/Shackerstone)
|shire_district=[Hinckley and Bosworth](/source/Hinckley_and_Bosworth)
|shire_county= [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire)
|region= East Midlands
|constituency_westminster= [Bosworth](/source/Bosworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|post_town= NUNEATON
|postcode_district= CV13
|postcode_area= CV
|dial_code= 01827
|os_grid_reference= SK362053
|london_distance_mi= 95
|london_direction= SE
}}
'''Bilstone''' is a small village and former [civil parish](/source/civil_parish), now in the parish of [Shackerstone](/source/Shackerstone), in the [Hinckley and Bosworth](/source/Hinckley_and_Bosworth) district of [Leicestershire](/source/Leicestershire), England. It is approximately {{convert|12|mi|0}} west from the [county town](/source/county_town) and city of [Leicester](/source/Leicester), and {{convert|2|mi|1}} east from [Twycross](/source/Twycross) and the [A444 road](/source/A444_road). In 1931 the parish had a population of 68.[{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10370541/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Bilstone Ch/CP through time|publisher=[A Vision of Britain through Time](/source/A_Vision_of_Britain_through_Time)|accessdate=19 December 2022}}]
The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Bildr' or 'farm/settlement on a corner or angle'.[{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Leicestershire/Bilstone|title=Key to English Place-names|website=kepn.nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=14 August 2021|archive-date=10 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210810065859/http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Leicestershire/Bilstone|url-status=live}}]
A half mile to the south, on Gibbet Lane, is a [gibbet](/source/Gibbeting) post, dating from 1800. The post was used to hang the remains of John Massey, who murdered his wife in 1801.[{{Cite web |title=The Bilstone Gibbet Post - Gibbet Lane - Bilstone, Leicestershire - Punishment and Disciplinary Devices on Waymarking.com |url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wmRD3T_The_Bilstone_Gibbet_Post_Gibbet_Lane_Bilstone_Leicestershire |access-date=2026-03-30 |website=www.waymarking.com}}] The post was half an hour away from the murder site.[[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-188216-gibbet-post-shackerstone-leicestershire Gibbet Post, Shackerstone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923225535/http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-188216-gibbet-post-shackerstone-leicestershire |date=23 September 2015 }}, British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 December 2014] At the west of the village is a Grade II [listed](/source/listed_building) early 19th-century farmhouse.[{{NHLE |num=1188242 |desc=Bilestone Hill Farmhouse |grade=II* |accessdate= 2 December 2014}}] At the north of the village on Mill Lane is a disused 18th-century [watermill](/source/watermill), with adjoined 19th-century buildings. The mill was operational in the 1950s; today its machinery doesn't exist.[{{cite PastScape|mnumber=921425|mname= Bilstone Mill|accessdate= 2 December 2014}}]
Bilstone is listed in the ''[Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book)'' as in the Guthlaxton [Hundred](/source/Hundred_(county_subdivision)) of Leicestershire, with two [ploughlands](/source/Carucate), three households and three [freemen](/source/Serfdom). In 1066 [Countess Godiva](/source/Lady_Godiva) was [Lord](/source/Lord_of_the_manor), she remaining as such in 1086, also becoming [Tenant-in-chief](/source/Tenant-in-chief) to [William I](/source/William_the_Conqueror).[[https://archive.today/20141202192625/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK3605/bilstone/ "Bilstone"], ''Open Domesday''. Retrieved 2 December 2014]
In 1870-1872 Bilston was a [township](/source/Township_(England)) in the parish of [Norton Juxta Twycross](/source/Norton_Juxta_Twycross) with a population of 116 and 25 houses.[[Wilson, John Marius](/source/John_Marius_Wilson); ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–72)]
In 1866 Bilstone became a parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Shackerstone.[{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10370541|title=Relationships and changes Bilstone Ch/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=19 December 2022}}]
[John Grundy Sr.](/source/John_Grundy_Sr.), land surveyor and civil engineer, was born in Bilstone c. 1696.[Skempton, Sir Alec et al. (2002). ''A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Vol 1: 1500 to 1830'', Thomas Telford, p. 276. {{ISBN|072772939X}}]
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==External links==
*{{commons category-inline|Bilstone}}
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LEI/Bilstone/ “Bilstone”], [Genuki](/source/Genuki)
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Category:Villages in Leicestershire
Category:Former civil parishes in Leicestershire
Category:Shackerstone
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