Bingley, West Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bingley. You may be able to find further references to Bingley in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Bingley parish and market town with railway station Bartholomew
BINGLEY a town, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict Imperial
Micklethwaite, Bingley and township Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Bingley.

Place Type of entry Source
Beckfoot hamlet Bartholomew
BECKFOOT a hamlet Imperial
Cottingley village Bartholomew
COTTINGLEY a hamlet Imperial
CrossFlats hamlet Bartholomew
CROSS-FLATTS a hamlet Imperial
Cross Roads hamlet Bartholomew
CROSS-ROADS a hamlet Imperial
CULLINGWORTH a hamlet Imperial
East Morton hamlet Bartholomew
Eldwick village Bartholomew
ELDWICK a hamlet Imperial
Faweather hamlet Bartholomew
FAWEATHER a hamlet Imperial
Gilstead hamlet Bartholomew
GILSTEAD a hamlet Imperial
Hainworth hamlet Bartholomew
HAINWORTH a hamlet Imperial
Harden hamlet Bartholomew
HARDEN a hamlet Imperial
MICKLETHWAITE a hamlet Imperial
Morton township Bartholomew
MORTON a township and a chapelry Imperial
PRIEST-THORPE a hamlet Imperial
Riddlesden ecclesiastical district and village Bartholomew
RIDDLESDEN a hamlet Imperial
RYSHWORTH a hamlet Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Harden 0 2
Cottingley 0 2
Wilsden 0 2
Cullingworth 0 2
Saltaire 0 2
Chellow 0 2
Eastwood 0 2
Riddlesden 0 2
Ingrow 0 3
Lawkholme 0 1
Morton 0 2
Shipley 0 2
Baildon 1 2
Heaton 0 2
Allerton 0 2
Cross Roads 0 2
Frizinghall 0 2
Windhill 0 2
Charlestown 0 2
Keighley 4 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Bingley. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
BINGLEY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
BINGLEY AND MICKLETHWAITE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
MICKLETHWAITE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
MICKLETHWAITE BINGLEY AND John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.