[3] At the west of the village is a Grade II listed early 19th-century farmhouse.

[4] At the north of the village on Mill Lane is a disused 18th-century watermill, with adjoined 19th-century buildings.

[5] Bilstone is listed in the Domesday Book as in the Guthlaxton Hundred of Leicestershire, with two ploughlands, three households and three freemen.

[6] In 1870-1872 Bilston was a township in the parish of Norton Juxta Twycross with a population of 116 and 25 houses.

[8] John Grundy, Sr., land surveyor and civil engineer, was born in Bilstone c.