Qualla: Bingham, Nottinghamshire

Bingham, Nottinghamshire: Introduction

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Willednic at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0. Just north of Bingham, in a field beside the modern A46, lies the buried outline of Margidunum, a Roman fort whose name the Coritani tribe almost certainly recognised before the legions arrived. The Britons called the place Marigidun, meaning fort-of-the-king's plain, and the Romans simply latinised what they heard. The town that grew up nearby has carried other names since: Bynnaingham, Bynningaham, Byngeham, and finally Bingham. Each rename is an arrival, a moment when newcomers reshaped the local sounds without quite displacing them. The fields the Romans patrolled, the marshland the Anglo-Saxons drained, and the housing estate called Romans' Quarter that started rising here in 2018 all sit on the same patch of east Nottinghamshire ground, 9 miles east of Nottingham along the Fosse Way.

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Bingham, Nottinghamshire: Layers in the Plain

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Chris, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Fosse Way ran from Exeter to Lincoln, and Margidunum was one of its waystations, set just north of where Bingham now stands. The Romans built it as a fort and let it grow into a small civilian settlement around the road. After the legions withdrew, Anglo-Saxon settlers led by...

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Bingham, Nottinghamshire: Common Land and Five Officers

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Medieval Bingham was managed collectively. The Manor Court, which met at the church gate, kept track of the village commons through five elected officers whose titles describe a vanished agricultural world. A foreman of the fields oversaw the arable strips. A hayward kept watch o...

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Bingham, Nottinghamshire: The Post-War Rebuilding

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0. After 1945, Bingham Rural District Council inspected more than 2,000 houses in the area to decide which could be saved and which had to go. Stanhope Workhouse came down. The Rectory was demolished. The 1960s and 1970s saw almost constant construction as the post-war population gr...

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Bingham, Nottinghamshire: People Who Came From Here

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Bingham has produced a string of cricketers, several Members of Parliament, and at least one Victoria Cross. Harry Churchill Beet, born at Brackendale Farm near Bingham in 1873, received his VC for valour at Wakkerstroom in the Second Boer War on 22 April 1900. Robert Lowe, born ...

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