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Bingley in York County England History and GeographyBINGLEY, a parish in the upper division of the wapentake of SKYRACK, west riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Bingley with Micklethwaite, and East and West Morton, and containing 7375 inhabitants, of which number, 6176 are in the market town of Bingley 37 miles (W. S. W.) from York, and 202 (N. N. W.) from London. The town is pleasantly situated on an eminence near the river Aire, and consists principally of one long street, containing several respectable and well-built houses; the inhabitants are plentifully supplied with water: the air is salubrious, and the environs, which are richly wooded, abound with agreeable and diversified scenery. A newsroom has been recently established, which is well conducted and liberally supported. The principal branch of manufacture is that of worsted-yarn, which is extensively carried on in the town and neighbourhood: there are some smaller factories for the spinning of cotton, and a manufactory for paper, together with a considerable trade in malt: the Leeds and Liverpool canal passes near the town. The market is on Tuesday: the fairs are, January 25th, and August 25th, 26th and 27th, for linen, horses and horned cattle. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £7. 6. 8., endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the gift of the Crown. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a neat edifice in the later style of English architecture. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Methodists. The free grammar school was founded in the reign of Henry VIII., and endowed with land and tenements producing, at present, nearly £300 per annum, subject to certain payments to the poor: the prcmises comprise a large school-room, and a house and garden for the master. There is also a National school capable of admitting eight hundred scholars. Mrs. Sarah Rhodes, in 1784, gave five cottages, which she endowed as almshouses for five aged widows, who receive £3 per annum each: there are also several bequests for distribution in bread and clothes among the poor, and for other charitable uses. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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