Bilsby

Coordinates: 53°16′00″N 0°12′27″E / 53.266650°N 0.207499°E / 53.266650; 0.207499

Bilsby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the A1111 Alford to Sutton-on-Sea road, 1 mile (1.6 km) east from the town of Alford. Thurlby and Asserby are hamlets located within the parish of Bilsby.

According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 415, increasing to 487 at the 2011 Census.

History

Bilsby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a settlement of eighteen households. The village name may derive from the Norse goddess Bil.

Mumby Road railway station used to be situated here. In 1897, Thurlby would have been an important junction between the Sutton and Willoughby Railway (part of the East Lincolnshire Railway) and a proposed line from a new port at Sutton on Sea to another in Warrington to be built by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.

A steam tramway ran through Bilsby between 1884 and 1889. The Alford and Sutton Tramway ran from Alford town to Sutton-on-Sea on rails set into the road; it opened in 1884 and closed only 5 years later.