LILBOURN, a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH, county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Rugby, containing 264 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £6, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The village is situated on the line of the ancient Watling-street, and is supposed to have been the Tripontium of the Romans; vestiges of an ancient castle are still visible. At Roundhill, about half a mile from the town, bones and skulls have been found; tradition states it to have been the scene of an engagement between the Danes and the Saxons. The river Avon passes on the east of the parish.