59 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade II*

Ireland BridgeGrade II* listedLeeds and Liverpool Canal Three Rise Locks with Overflow ChannelGrade II* listedOld Railway Shed Depot, Approximately 30 Metres South East of New Fire StationGrade II listedBingley Independent Methodist ChurchGrade II listedPrince of Wales ParkGrade II park or garden+1See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 10 entries were listed in 1966. 31 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

1 registered park or garden

Prince of Wales ParkGrade II

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

William Wickham

Tom Broadley

Muriel Aked

James Hartley

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Muriel Aked1887–1955 · British film actress (1887-1955)

William Wickham1761–1840 · British civil servant and politician, died 1840

Tom Broadley1871–1950 · English rugby union and rugby league footballer (1871–1950)

James Hartley1888–1970 · Canadian politician (1888–1970)

Everyone born in Bingley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 59 listed buildings in Bingley, including Church of All Saints. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1988. Muriel Aked (1887), William Wickham (1761) and Tom Broadley (1871) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 31 of 59. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.