Bingham, Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Bingham is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Other places in the parish include: Newton.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1598
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1608
Nonconformists include: Christians, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BINGHAM, a small town, a parish, a subdistrict, a district, and a wapentake in Notts. The town stands near the Fossé way, on the Nottingham and Grantham railway, in the vale of Belvoir, 9 miles E of Nottingham.
It consists chiefly of two streets, parallel to each other; and is well built It has a post office under Nottingham, a railway station, two chief inns, a church, two dissenting chapels, a free school, and a workhouse; and is a seat of petty sessions and a polling-place.
The church is early and decorated English, large, and cruciform; has a square tower, highly sculptured, and a lofty spire; contains a monument to White, the first editor of the “Ephemeris;” and was anciently connected with a small college or guild.
A weekly market is held on Thursday; and fairs on the Tuesday and Wednesday before 13 Feb., on Whit-Thursday, and on 8 and 9 Nov.
The parish is stated in the Census to include likewise part of the hamlet of Newton. Acres, 3,054. Real property, £9,609. Pop., 1,918. Houses, 416. The property is not much divided.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £1,503. Patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. 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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Census
Census returns for Bingham, 1841-1891
Church Records
Baptisms, 1807-1837 Author: Wesleyan Church (Bingham, England)
Church records, 1843-1898 Author: Bingham Circuit (Nottinghamshire : Wesleyan Methodist)
Non-register materials, 1797-1913 Author: Bingham Circuit (Nottinghamshire : Methodist)
Court records
History
Land and property
Military records
Poorhouses & Poor Law
Statistics
Taxation
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Bingham
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Bingham
- Poor Law Union: Bingham
- Hundred: Bingham
- Province: York