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Bingley was a manor which extended several miles up and down the Aire valley, extending upstream to Marley on the outskirts of Keighley and downstream to Cottingley. 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 ...
The Bingley Arms was originally named The Priests Inn. The Bingley Arms calls itself the oldest pub in Britain, with a history dating back to between AD 905 and AD 953, and says that it served as a safe house for persecuted Catholic priests, and also as a courthouse from around AD 1000 from which offenders were taken to the pillory across the road. [1]
Chronicles and stories of old Bingley. A full account of the history, antiquities, natural productions, scenery, customs and folklore of the ancient town and parish of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. London: E Stock. OCLC 1041792951. Turner, Joseph Horsfall (1897). Ancient Bingley: or, Bingley, its history and scenery. Bingley: T ...
The old improvement commissioners' district became Bingley Urban District, whilst the surrounding former local board district was named the "Bingley Outer Urban District". The outer district was abolished less than four years later in 1898, being absorbed into Bingley Urban District, which also took in the neighbouring Wilsden Urban District at ...
Ancient Bingley: or, Bingley, its history and scenery. T Harrison, Bingley. OCLC 7198070. Speight, Harry (1898). Chronicles and stories of old Bingley. A full account of the history, antiquities, natural productions, scenery, customs and folklore of the ancient town and parish of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Elliot Stock. OCLC ...
The parish includes St Wilfreds in Gilstead and along with the parish of Church of All Saints, Bingley (which includes the churches of St. Aidan, Crossflatts and St. Lawrence, Eldwick) is part of the Bingley Group Ministry. [18] The benefice used to lie within the Diocese of Bradford, but since 20 April 2014 it is now in the Diocese of Leeds. [19]
Bingley Old White Horse Inn. The Old White Horse Inn in Bingley, West Yorkshire, England, is one of the oldest buildings still in use in the town.It was originally constructed as a coaching inn in the mid-seventeenth century, strategically positioned with Ireland Bridge on the one side and the Parish church on the other.
The Myrtle Grove estate dates back to the mid-18th century when it consisted of a house known as "Spring Head", a farm and an old Quaker meeting-house. [2] In 1767, Dr Johnson Atkinson purchased the estate, demolished the existing buildings and commissioned the current mansion which was designed in the Georgian style, built in ashlar stone and completed in around 1770. [2]