Although Crow Close has not been excavated a number of artefacts of Medieval origin have been dug up in various parts of Bingham. Most interesting of these is a skeleton and two bronze broaches found when the foundations for a building behind Beaumont's supermarket were being dug. The broaches were of a design typical of the 13th to 14th century and the skeleton was of a man, 5ft 5 inches tall, aged 30 to 45. He lay in a shallow grave orientated north-south and it is surmised that he may have been a murder victim.

The market was founded in 1314, when Bingham became a market town and is presumed always to have been at the Market Place. There are records of a Market Place in Bingham from as early as 1276. The market continued on a regular basis, always on a Thursday, until the end of the nineteenth century when it died, but it was revived in 1975.
After Roger de Busli there were several Lords of the Manor before Bingham manor was given to Ralph Bugg in 1265 by Henry III. He changed his name to Ralph de Bingham and his family held the manor until the late fourteenth century. Other owners followed until 1533, when Thomas Stanhope bought the manor, beginning a long period of ownership by that family.

Throughout the Middle Ages the Bingham manors were farmed on the open-field system. The names of two of the three main arable fields, Brackendale and Starnhill are preserved today in local farm names.

A map of Bingham dated from 1814 shows a pattern of settlement that had probably remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. Homesteads were dotted around Market Square and along both sides of two roads through the town. One was Nottingham Road, Long Acre and Long Acre East; the other a road from East Street westwards past the church to Kirkhill.

Some of the ancient hedges shown on the 1814 map still exist. Although enclosure had begun by the end of the seventeenth century the main period of activity followed the Enclosure Acts at the end of the eighteenth century. By 1820 enclosure was complete and a pattern of fields was established that remained unchanged until the 1950s. The only farms named on a map dated 1835 that still exist are Starnhill and Brocker. All the other farmers lived within Bingham itself, a relic of the Middle Ages. Indeed, even as late as 1952 there were still five farms in the centre of Bingham.

From the time of the Tudors through to the end of the nineteenth century Bingham was a fairly prosperous, self-contained, small market town. The population gradually grew to between 600 and 700 in the late seventeenth century and 2054 in 1851, a high point falling to around 1600 by the end of the nineteenth century. The town was untouched by the Civil War, except that the Stanhopes, the Earls of Chesterfield since 1628, were Royalists and lost their estates for a time. They were returned to them eventually and the family held onto Bingham until 1871 when the seventh Earl died without issue, as they say. His sister inherited it and the estate passed to the Earl of Carnarvon, whom she had married. It passed to the Crown in 1925 in lieu of death duties, but in recent years parts of it have been sold off into private ownership.

In the mid nineteenth century Bingham was still essentially the centre of a farming community, with a significant proportion of its inhabitants either working on the land or supporting those that did. However, like many villages and small towns around Nottingham, Bingham benefited from lace industry and there was a small community of stocking frame workers, hand weavers and lace makers here. Some houses in Bingham still show some of the design features common to houses occupied by these workers. Bingham had its manor

houses, thatch cottages, windmills, playhouse, stocks, workhouses and prison, all of which have now gone. The Butter Cross, which at first sight has a medieval look, was built in 1860 as a memorial to John Hassal, land agent to the Earl of Carnarvon. It replaced at the same site, a genuine Medieval cross, around which women would sit to sell dairy produce.

Bingham began an irreversible progression of change when the railways came in 1850. The short journey to Nottingham or Grantham provided an opportunity for Bingham people to travel there to do their shopping and to work. The community ceased to be self-contained. For the first fifty years of the twentieth century there was little new building in Bingham, though all the usual benefits of change slowly arrived here. New development did not take off until after 1950, and in the process much of old Bingham was destroyed. There are now no houses in the town older than about 1650. Plans for expansion in the 1960s envisaged a final population possibly as high as 24,000. Growth has, indeed, been steady since then and the population has now reached around 9000. Farming is still important in the parish, but is no longer the dominant activity it was. There is an industrial estate on the outskirts and a number of small businesses have come here, but most of the new arrivals of the last half century work elsewhere. The transformation from a closed, self-contained, rural community, begun in the mid nineteenth century, to an extension of metropolitan Nottingham is now complete.