Bingham, Nottinghamshire

Historical Description

Bingham, a small town and a parish in Notts. The town stands near the Fosse Way, on the Nottingham and Grantham railway, in the Vale of Belvoir, 10 miles E of Nottingham. It consists chiefly of two streets parallel to each other, and is well built. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Nottingham, two railway stations, two chief inns, a church, two dissenting chapels, and a workhouse, and is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place for the Newark division of the county. The church is Early and Decorated English, large and cruciform; has a square tower, highly sculptured, and a lofty spire; contains among others a monument to White, the first editor of the "Ephemeris;" and was anciently connected with a small college or guild. A statute fair is held on Candlemas Thursday and the last Thursday in Oct. Acreage of parish, 8070; population, 1487. The Earl of Carnarvon is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £631 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Carnarvon. Archbishop Abbot and Bishops Hanmer and Wren were for some time rectors, and Archbishop Cranmer, the astronomer White, Colonel Hutchinson, and Lord Howe were natives of the parish or of its vicinity. The manufacture of cotton hosiery is carried on. The Butter Cross in the market-place was erected by subscription in 1861. A cemetery has been laid out by the rural sanitary authority.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bingham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bingham (All Saints))
• Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1904

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bingham are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Nottinghamshire newspapers online:

• Nottingham Evening Post
• Nottinghamshire Guardian
• Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
• Nottingham Gazette, and Political, Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register for the Midland Counties

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.