BINLEY, a parish in the Kirby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Coventry, containing, with the liberty of Earnsford, 211 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diqcese of Lichfield and Coventry, and in the patronage of Earl Craven. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was built by Lord Craven, and consecrated in 1772. The Rev. Thomas Wagstaffe, who wrote' a defence of Charles I., was born here, and died at Rouen in 1770.