BINGLEY, a market-town in the west riding of Yorkshire, on the river Aire, 31 miles W.S.W. of York. The inhabitants in 1851 amounted to 5019, principally engaged in manufactures of worsted, cotton, and paper, which have been much improved during the last ten years. The town is well built and flourishing, and has a neat church, grammar-school, and several charities.