a market-town of England, in the parish of Wolverhampton, hundred of Leisdon, and county of Stafford; 2½ miles S.E. of Wolverhampton. Bilston is chiefly indebted for its importance to the iron trade, for which it possesses many advantages. In the vicinity are very productive mines of coal and ironstone, as well as sand of the finest quality for casting. Its productions also find a ready exit by means of canals to London, Liverpool, Bristol, &c.; and the Willenhall station of the London and Birmingham railway is within 1½ miles of the town. It has numerous furnaces, forges, rolling and slitting mills, for the preparation of iron. The town itself is very irregularly built; but has some handsome buildings, as St Leonard's and St Mary's chapels, and the Roman Catholic chapel. Bilston suffered severely from the cholera in 1832 and 1849. Pop. (1851) 23,527.