BILSTON, urban district, Staffordshire, England, 2-im. S.E. of Wolverhampton, in the Black Country. Pop. (I 931) 31,248. It is served by the G.W. and L.M.S. railways. In the vicinity are very productive mines of coal and ironstone, sand of fine quality for casting, and grinding-stones for cutlers. Bilston contains numerous furnaces, forges, rolling and slitting mills for the prep aration of iron, and a great variety of factories for japanned and heavy iron goods. The town is ancient, appearing in Domesday.