Bingfield

Bingfield was an ancient settlement. There are the remains of an ancient medieval village in the field in front of the church, uncovered during an oil excavation. Most of the buildings in Bingfield date to the early 19th century. There were probably four farms, a school, and a church which dates to the late 18th/early 19th century. The church and school were also used by residents of neighbouring Hallington, which had neither of its own. Bingfield remained largely unchanged from the mid 19th century until after the Second World War, when mechanisation brought significant change to the farming industry. Since the 1970s there was a period of farmers selling off redundant farm buildings to be…