] At the time Cheapside was an area for those who had made money in buisness but where still having to take an active role in the running of the buisness.

] Cheapside was a food market, period. The Gardiners lived in Gracechurch Street, which was renowned for its beautiful and rather exuberant shops, as recorded by contemporary writers. It was also in a different part of London.(you can find the quote in Alison Adbergham's Shops and Shopping if you look. Please do- it's wonderful book that starts with Jane Austen's shopping habits.)
}Who publishes the book as I may have some trouble fining it otherwise as the local book shops can be a bit under stocked and i will probably have to order it. London still has some great shopping. But Cheapside is rather unlike Richmond or any other such places it is much much grander.

] Bingley though his father ( an probably grandfather) had made the money (from trade )he no longer had to be an active part in the buisness.

] Yes, but he could still be involved. Although Jane Austen says he inherited property to the value of a hundred thousand pounds, he may well be still looking after it. Yes but it would not require his full attention on a regur basis. Un like Mr gardiner who had to give up travelling time for his buisness.

] Darcy is Family money, which means that the estate provides most of his funds, though some of it would still have come from other sources

] Again, what makes you so sure? Why couldn't an estate have provided ten thousand a year? Or two estates? Or a mine and an estate? Or investment in industry plus an estate? Why does he need a platation?
} the plantation was only a suggestion as JA mentions one in mansfield park. As for the estate they mentioned him as a good landlord so i assume he put back larger sums into the estate for the up keep of the buildings and other repairs and new buildings etc. But he wqould have also had a london house which would not have been cheap to run and Georginas dowary would have also had to have come out of estate funds as her farther had set the sum, but her mother may have had money that was to be pased on to her.

] Bingley is in fact an old English term .

} it is a culmonation of two words discribing an area of land which is water logged at some time of the year but not at others. Rather like the somerset levels.