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In 1592, Bingley was shown on a map by Yorkshire map-maker Christopher Saxton as a single street with about 20 houses on each side. The church sits at the west end of the street opposite a single large house, possibly a manor house. Since Bingley was a market town, the market stalls would have been set up on either side of the main street.
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 ...
The locks from alongside. Bingley Three Rise Locks is a staircase of three locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley, West Yorkshire, England. The locks are a Grade II* listed building. [1] The locks were designed by John Longbotham and opened in 1774. The stone locks are still operational and underwent major refurbishment including the ...
Bingley (ward) / 53.8509; -1.8380. Bingley (population 13,675 - 2001 UK census, [2] 18,294 at the 2011 Census) [1] is a Ward in Bradford Metropolitan District in the county of West Yorkshire, England, named after the town of Bingley around which it is centred. As well as the town of Bingley the ward includes the conurbated villages of Eldwick ...
53.861°N 1.845°W. / 53.861; -1.845. Crossflatts is a ribbon development in Airedale along the old route of the A650 road between Bingley and Keighley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. [1] [2] The opening of the Aire Valley Trunk road in 2004 has seen a reduction of 51% of traffic through the village.
The Battle of Winwick was fought on 19 August 1648 between a Scottish Royalist army and a Parliamentarian army during the Second English Civil War. The Scottish army invaded north-west England and was attacked and defeated at Preston on 17 August. The surviving Royalists fled south, closely pursued. Two days later, hungry, cold, soaking wet ...
Bingley is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 102 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, six are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the town of Bingley ...
BD postcode area. / 53.832; -1.836. 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 ...