MY dictionary says wimberry - the whortleberry. Bilberry - a shrub with dark blue berries called also whortle-berry. The New Universal Dictionary, January 1965.
So bilberry is the bush and wimberry is the fruit.
So Boltonians are correct.
Mrs G Battersby
Ivy Road, Bolton
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