Paula Tilbrook

Paula Tilbrook (born 16 January 1930 in Salford) is a retired English actress who played Betty Eagleton in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1994 to 2015. In April 2015, it was announced that Tilbrook would be retiring and her final scenes as Betty aired on 25 May. She briefly reprised her role in Emmerdale on Christmas Day 2015, when Betty appeared via skype to speak to the villagers. On the 1st January 2016 Paula made an appearance on The Big Quiz Corrie V Emmerdale were she did a scene with Mark Charnock (Marlon).

In 1977, Tilbrook made an appearance as Estelle Plimpton in Coronation Street, and followed this by appearances as Olive Taylor-Brown in the same show in 1978 and 1980. From 1991 to 1993, she played Vivian Barford in the ITV soap opera. In 1988, Tilbrook played Flo Capp in the sitcom Andy Capp.

Tilbrook also appeared as dog-lover Mrs Tattersall in Open All Hours and played three roles in Last of the Summer Wine. Her other credits include Crown Court and two episodes of the BBC's Play for Today.

Tilbrook

Coordinates: 52°18′N 0°25′W / 52.3°N 0.42°W / 52.3; -0.42

Tilbrook is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Tilbrook lies approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Huntingdon, near Covington. Tilbrook is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

Government

As a civil parish, Tilbrook has a parish council. The parish council is elected by the residents of the parish who have registered on the electoral roll; the parish council is the lowest tier of government in England. A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields. The parish council reviews all planning applications that might affect the parish and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the local planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of the Council Tax.

Tilbrook (name)

The surname Tilbrook is derived from an English local source. Local surnames were derived from the place where a person once lived, or a prominent local geographical feature, perhaps a hill identified one person from another who lived near a bridge, river, lake, etc.

Here, the name denotes 'of Tilbrook', a parish in county Bedford. This name was given to someone who lived at this place. This placename itself is derived from the Old English language byname 'Tile' (from 'til', 'capable'), and 'broc', meaning 'brook' (as in a meandering stream). In the 11th century it was called 'TileBroc'.

Early records of the surname Tilbrook include an entry of this name recorded within the Hundred Rolls, which until the 19th century was a unit of English Government detailing citizens of a given area. This system of local legal jurisdiction was introduced by King Edmund the Martyr I (939-946AD).

William de Tilbroc of county Lincolnshire, was documented in this book in 1273AD. This surname was also entered in the Domesday Book four times during 1086/87. This book was created as an in-depth survey of almost all England, detailing land holdings tenure and stock of individuals. The original document is still preserved among English public records.