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Bilbrough is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, south-west of York, and just outside the York city boundary. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 319 increasing to 348 at the 2011 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parish population 2011 )〕 ==History== The name means, ''The fortress of the Bila'', who were a tribe of the pre-Norman era, who were known to reside in the North of England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Etymology )〕 The village and the surrounding Parish has an area of 1,390 acres and was mostly the property of the Fairfax family from the 14th century onwards.Thomas Fairfax, parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War, is buried here in a tomb inside the Fairfax Chapel within the village church, beside his wife Anne, daughter of Lord Vere, Baron of Tilbury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.walter9.info/Fairfax/html/bilbrough.html )〕 Other notable landowners of the Parish included Richard Basy, an MP for York in the late 13th century. Bilbrough Manor, built in 1902 for Guy Thomas Fairfax, is a Grade II listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-326054-bilbrough-manor-bilbrough )〕 The original Manor House, now a farmhouse, was built in 1670 for Thomas Fairfax. It is known that the former MP and Lord Mayor of York, Admiral Robert Fairfax, resided at this Manor. It was destroyed by fire in 1832. In 1881 the population was 198.〔 The village is the subject of a 17th-century poem, ''Upon the hill and grove at Bilbrough'', written by English metaphysical poet and politician, Andrew Marvell. 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「Bilbrough」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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