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Bingley became a market town with the grant of a Market Charter in 1212 by King John. According to the poll tax returns of 1379, Bingley had 130 households, and probably around 500 people. The nearby towns of Bradford, Leeds and Halifax had about half this population. Therefore, at this time Bingley was the largest town in the area.
The BD postcode area, also known as the Bradford postcode area, [2] is a group of 24 postcode districts in England, within seven post towns.These cover northwestern West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Bingley, Shipley, Cleckheaton and Keighley) and southwestern North Yorkshire (including Skipton and Settle), plus very small parts of Lancashire.
Bingley Urban District. / 53.846; -1.839. Bingley Urban District covered the town of Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and its surrounding areas for 80 years between 1894 and 1974. It had replaced an Improvement Commissioners council, and the UDC itself was replaced in 1974, by the newly formed Bradford Metropolitan District Council.
The five-rise is the steepest flight of locks in the UK, with a gradient of about 1:5 (a rise of 59 ft 2 in (18.03 m) over a distance of 320 ft (98 m)). The intermediate and bottom gates are the tallest in the country. Because of the complications of working a staircase lock and because so many boaters (both first-time hirers and new owners ...
UK. England. Yorkshire. 53°50′N 1°52′W / 53.83°N 1.86°W / 53.83; -1.86. Harden is a civil parish and village within the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Bingley. It had a population of 1,615 in the 2001 census, [2] but by 2011 this had risen to 1,900. [1]
Examples of cities in the United Kingdom; Liverpool, Edinburgh, Worcester; and London. This is a list of cities in the United Kingdom that are officially designated as such as of 12 November 2022 [update]. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It lists those places that have been granted city status by letters patent or royal charter. [ 3 ][ 4 ] There are currently 76 ...
52°24′07″N 1°26′47″W / 52.40198°N 1.44629°W / 52.40198; -1.44629. Binley is a suburb in the east of Coventry, West Midlands, England. Binley evolved from a small mining village on the outskirts of Coventry to a large residential area composing private residences and council-owned properties. It is famous for the Binley ...
Bingley St. Ives, or St. Ives Estate is a 550-acre (2.2 km 2) country park [1] [2] and former estate between Bingley and Harden in West Yorkshire, England now owned by Bradford Council. [2] The park has Grade II listing in the English Heritage National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Interest. [ 3 ]