Billingley

Also known as Billingley, South Yorkshire

Billingley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England, east of Barnsley. At the 2001 census it had a population of 177, increasing to 210 at the 2011 Census.

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Locality: Barnsley
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 0

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UK place.official_name: Billingley
UK place.country: England
UK place.region: Yorkshire and the Humber
UK place.population: 210
UK place.population_ref: (2011 census)
UK place.os_grid_reference: SE430039
UK place.static_image_name: Billingley's first world war memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1287171.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: War memorial in the village
UK place.map_type: South Yorkshire
UK place.post_town: BARNSLEY
UK place.postcode_area: S
UK place.postcode_district: S72
UK place.dial_code: 01709
UK place.constituency_westminster: Barnsley East and Mexborough
UK place.civil_parish: Billingley
UK place.metropolitan_borough: Barnsley
UK place.metropolitan_county: South Yorkshire

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The name Billingley possibly derives from the Old English Billaingaslēah meaning 'wood or clearing of the people of Billa' or Bilhāmingaslēah meaning the 'wood or clearing of the people of Bilham'. Perhaps, it may simply derive from billinglēah meaning 'wood or clearing at the hill'.

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