BILLINGE (CHAPEL-END), a chapelry in that
part of the parish of WIGAN which is in the hundred
of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER, 5
miles (S. W.) from Wigan, containing 1002 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Rector of Wigan.
The manufacture of cotton is here carried on to a
limited extent. A charity school here has a trifling
endowment.