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Bilstone is a small village in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated approximately west from the county town and city of Leicester, and east from Twycross and the A444 road. The village forms part of the civil parish of Shackerstone. A half mile to the south, on Gibbet Lane, was a gibbet post. It dated from 1800, but had disappeared by 1988. The post was close to a contemporary murder.〔(Gibbet Post, Shackerstone ), British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2 December 2014〕 At the west of the village is a Grade II listed early 19th-century farmhouse. At the north of the village on Mill Lane is a disused 18th-century watermill, with adjoined 19th-century buildings. The mill was operational in the 1950s; today its machinery doesn't exist. Bilstone is listed in the ''Domesday Book'' as in the Guthlaxton Hundred of Leicestershire, with two ploughlands, three households and three freemen. In 1066 Countess Godiva was Lord, she remaining as such in 1086, also becoming Tenant-in-chief to William I.〔("Bilstone" ), ''Open Domesday''. Retrieved 2 December 2014〕 In 1870 Bilston was in the parish of Norton Juxta Twycross with a population of 116 and 25 houses.〔Wilson, John Marius; ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' (1870–72)〕 John Grundy, Sr., land surveyor and civil engineer, was born in Bilstone c. 1696.〔Skempton, Sir Alec et al. (2002). ''A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Vol 1: 1500 to 1830'', Thomas Telford, p. 276. ISBN 072772939X〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bilstone」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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