Music groups have visited to and from the twin towns, and a beer festival is held in Bingham every year.

Bingham lies near the junction of the A46 (following an old Roman road, the Fosse Way) between Leicester and Newark-on-Trent and the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham.

Neighbouring communities are Radcliffe-on-Trent, East Bridgford, Car Colston, Scarrington, Aslockton, Whatton-in-the-Vale, Tithby and Cropwell Butler.

The first known people to settle at this area were the Coritani, a Briton tribe that governed most of the East Midlands who would have called the fort "Marigidun", which meant "fort-of-the-king's plain".

The Romans built a fortress at this site, the ruins of which lay north of Bingham, and a settlement at the river crossing at Ad Pontem (East Stoke) on the Fosse Way, which ran between Isca (Exeter) and Lindum (Lincoln).

The Bynna "kindred" (an Anglo-Saxon pagan family unit) placed their village next to a marshland, a source of water which would later be drained, leaving extremely valuable fertile lands for farming.

Following the Norman conquest of England, the Domesday Book of 1086 allows us to estimate that the village had a population of around 300, and that the majority of freeholders in the district were Danes.

In order to maintain these common lands, the Manor Court, which met around the Church gate, contained 5 elected officers.

This was compounded by the arrival of the railways into the town in 1851, although as England's agricultural sector began to decline and the cottage industry of lace and stocking knitting were overtaken by factories in Nottingham, Bingham would plunge into high levels of poverty and unemployment.

After the war, the Bingham Rural District Council inspected the state of over 2,000 houses in the area to see if they needed to be demolished or could be repaired for the redevelopment.

[10] The Anglican parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Bingham, occupies a Grade I listed medieval building restored in 1845–1846 and again in 1912.

The largest include Midland Filtration, Screwfix, Focus Label Machinery, Trent Designs, XACT Document Solutions, The Workplace Depot and Water at Work, and a business club.

[15] Of the six pubs in the town, four remain as such: The Butter Cross (Wetherspoons, formerly The Crown), The Horse & Plough (Castle Rock Brewery), The White Lion and The Wheatsheaf.

[16] The town's sports clubs are: Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC East Midlands and ITV Central.

[30] Bingham's main railway station provides an hourly service to and beyond Nottingham and Grantham and to Skegness along the Poacher Line.