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Bingham in Nottingham County England History and GeographyBINGHAM, a market town and parish in the northern division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM, 10 miles (E.) from Nottingham, and 123 (N. W. by N.) from London, containing, with part of the township of Newton, 1574 inhabitants. This place, which, previously to the Conquest, was possessed by two Saxon chieftains, appears to have been anciently more extensive than it is at present. It had a college or guild founded in honour of St. Mary. The town is pleasantly situated in the fertile vale of Belvoir, and consists principally of two parallel streets, one of which leads directly into a spacious market-place; some smaller streets have been formed within the last twenty years. The houses, though irregularly built, are neat, and several of them are of handsome appearance: the town is well paved, and amply supplied with water. The market is on Thursday: fairs are held, February 13th and 14th, for draught horses, on Whit-Monday for toys, and November 8th and 9th for young horses and hogs. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £44. 7. 11., and in the patronage of the Earl of Chesterfield. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient and spacious cruciform structure, partaking of the early and decorated styles of English architecture, with a square, embattled, and highly enriched tower, crowned with the remains of statues, which have been substituted for pinnacles, and surmounted by a lofty spire, which, with the upper stage of the tower, is of later erection: within the church are some beautiful specimens of foliage and sculpture, of elegant design and elaborate execution. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. An endowment of £8 per annum, for a free school, has been augmented with a dividend of £10 per annum, payable on the sum of £150, raised by the performance of plays, and invested in the Nottingham and Grantham canal, by a few individuals of the town. The Roman fosse-way, in its course through the parish, passes by a large mound, called Castle-hill, the site of an ancient fortress. Mr. Robert White, the astronomer, and editor of the Ephemeris which bears his name, was a native of this parish, and is interred here'a mural tablet in the church has been inscribed to his memory. Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury; Wren, Bishop of Ely; and Hanmer, Bishop of Bangor, were successively rectors of this parish, from which they were promoted to their respective sees in the seventeenth century. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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