Binbrook is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the East Lindsey district of

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...

, England. It is situated on the B1203 road, and north-east from

Market Rasen Market Rasen ( ) is a town and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The River Rase runs through it east to west, approximately north-east from Lincoln, east from Gainsborough, 14 miles (23 km) west of Lo ...

. Previously a larger market town,Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' pp. 64-65; Methuen & Co. Ltd it now has a population of about 700, rising to 892 at the Census 2011. Binbrook Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary and St Gabriel. There were two village churches, St Mary and St Gabriel, since disappeared. A new church with joint dedication was built in 1869 by James Fowler. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 191; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. Binbrook was the birthplace of the traditional singer Joseph Taylor, one of the Lincolnshire singers recorded by

Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

. Binbrook is close to the site of Binbrook Airfield, originally opened as

RAF Binbrook Royal Air Force Binbrook or RAF Binbrook was a Royal Air Force station, now closed, located near Binbrook, Lincolnshire, England. The old domestic site (married quarters) has been renamed to become the village of Brookenby. RAF Binbrook was pri ...

; the airfield housing is now the new village of Brookenby.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south east to

Fotherby Fotherby is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated just east from the A16 road, east from Market Rasen, and south from Cleethorpes. In the ''Domesday'' account Fotherby is written as ...

with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,831.

Orford

The parish of Binbrook contains the site of the lost medieval village of Orford. Orford was the site of a

priory A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites), or monasteries of ...

of Premonstratensian nuns. The priory was founded around 1170 by Ralf d'Albini of the Anglo-Norman baronial house of Mowbray, and was endowed with the church at

Wragby Wragby ( ) is a town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated at the junction of the A157 and A158 roads, and approximately north-west from Horncastle and about north-east of Lincoln. Histor ...

. At the time of

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in 1539 it held a prioress and 7 nuns.

References

External links

"Binbrook"

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Village web site

Binbrook CoE Primary School

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