Bingley

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Bingley
Coordinates 53 ° 51 ′  N , 1 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′  N , 1 ° 50 ′  W
Bingley (England)
Bingley
Bingley
Residents 22,493 (as of 2011)
administration
Post town BINGLEY
ZIP code section BD16
prefix 01274
Part of the country England
region Yorkshire and the Humber
Metropolitan county West Yorkshire
Metropolitan Borough City of Bradford
British Parliament Shipley

Bingley is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in Metropolitan County West Yorkshire , England , with a population of over 22,000 (as of 2011).

geography

Old Town Bingley is between the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . Druids' Altar is a rock outcrop above Bingley.

history

founding

Bingley was probably founded by the Saxons . The name means something like "Bing's clearing" in the Saxon original, although this is neither the original pronunciation nor the spelling of Bing. It is believed that Bingley was founded at a ford through the River Aire. This link connected the villages of Harden, Cullingworth and Wilsden on the south side of the river. In addition to the ford, the narrowing of the Aire valley on the upper reaches of which has probably played a role in the settlement.

Bingley's entry in the Domesday Book, 1086

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Bingley is listed as "Bingheleia," with the following entry:

m In Bingheleia hb. Gospatric iiij car 'tra e' ad gld. tra ad ii car 'Ernegis de burun h't. & Wast 'e'. TRE val, iiij lib '. Silva past 'ii leu' lg '& i lat'. Dead 'm' e iiij leu 'lg' & ii lat '

Which roughly translates to:

In Bingheleia, Gospatric has four carucatae of taxable land. There is land for two plow harnesses. Ernegis de Burun owns it and it is wasteland . In the time of Edward the Confessor it was valued at four pounds. Wooded areas two feet long and one wide. In total, the mansion is four long and two wide.

middle Ages

The ford was replaced a few meters upstream by the Ireland Bridge . In the Middle Ages, Bingley was a manor that was many miles along the Aire Valley, upstream it stretched to Marley, now a suburb of Keighley, and downstream to Cottingley . Bingley was raised to market town in 1212 by King John . The oldest buildings in Bingley include the coaching inn and the Old White Horse Inn , both on the north side of Ireland Bridge.

According to a poll tax of 1379, Bingley had 130 households with probably 500 people. The nearby cities of Radford, Leeds and Halifax each had only about half that population. At the time, Bingley was the largest city in the area.

There is no record of how Bingley survived the Black Death that raged across Europe in the 14th century. It is estimated that a third of the then European population died from the epidemic, and sometimes entire cities and villages were wiped out. Under the poll tax of 1379, the nearby town of Boulton had no survivors to pay a tax. Bingley, on the other hand, appeared to have been affected only slightly by the disease.

Tudor period

In 1592, Bingley was depicted on a map by Yorkshire cartographer Christopher Saxton as a single street with 20 houses on either side of the street. The church was at the western end of the street, across from it was a large house, probably a mansion. Ever since Bingley was a market town, the market stalls have arguably been at either end of the street.

Industrial revolution

Bingley Five Rise Locks

Like most towns in the West Riding, Bingley flourished during the Industrial Revolution. The Bingley Canal section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was completed in 1774 and connects Bingley with Skipton and Bradford via the Bradford Canal . The canal runs right through the center of Bingley and then ascends the Bingley Three Rise Locks and Bingley Five Rise Locks stairs to Keighley. Numerous wool mills were established and residents of the surrounding areas moved to the city to work in the mills. Many also migrated from distant areas, such as B. from Ireland, especially after the great Irish famine of 1845–1849 . A railway line through Bingley opened in 1847, and a freight yard brought additional trade to Bingley. During this time the parishes of Gilstead and Eldwick grew together with Bingley. The Bingley Building Society was founded around this time.

Modern times

Bingley College was opened in 1911 by Helen Wodehouse, the first female principal. The first recorded 102 women came from the West Riding of Yorkshire region . About 16,000 teachers were trained over the years up to the closure in 1979, which was an important economic factor for the city.

In the 1960s, the freight yard was demolished. The textile industry migrated to low-wage countries over the years. Only the Damart spinning mill still exists today and trades in textiles. Since 1995 the tannery and other spinning mills have been converted into living space. In 1974 the West Riding of Yorkshire administrative area was replaced by the new Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire and the Bingley Urban District Council was dissolved. Bingley has been a borough of Bradford since that time . As part of Margaret Thatcher's reforms , the majority of social housing was transferred to private ownership. A large proportion of these buildings were demolished and rebuilt as private apartments. In recent years, Bingley has flourished as a desirable residential suburb of Bradford.

Panoramic view of Bingley

traffic

The city has its own railway station on the Airedale Line with direct trains to Leeds, Bradford, Skipton, Morecambe and Carlisle . The airport Leeds Bradford Airport is located in eleven kilometer distance. The main roads A650 and B6265, which connect Shipley to Keighley, run through town. From the latter, the B6429 branches off to the south, which leads to the A629 between Keighley and Halifax .

education

Bingley has elementary and middle schools. Middle schools include the Beckfoot School and the Bingley Grammar School , founded in the 16th century.

Others

  • The Airedale Terrier was originally bred in this area and is also known as the Bingley Terrier.
  • One of the main characters in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is called Mr. Bingley and comes from the north of England.
  • Bingley is sometimes referred to as the " Throstle's Nest of Old England ". It is unclear where this name comes from, which is shared with the Cumbrian town of Wigton and with many pubs across England.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Persons connected to Bingley

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Population: Bingley, West Yorkshire , accessed January 20, 2014
  2. ↑ Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic Names of Antarctica , p. 61 , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956 (accessed June 15, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Bingley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files