1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Bingley
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BINGLEY, a market town in the Otley parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the Aire, 512 m. N.W. of Bradford, on the Midland railway. Pop. of urban district (1901) 18,449. The church of All Saints is good Perpendicular, though considerably restored. The large industrial population is engaged principally in the worsted and cotton manufacture. The neighbourhood is populous, but the natural beauty of the Aire valley is not greatly impaired.