Binbrook is a village and
civil parish
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in the
East Lindsey district of
Lincolnshire
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, England. It is situated on the
B1203 road
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, and north-east from
Market Rasen.
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; 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 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.[
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References
External links
"Binbrook"
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Village web site
Binbrook CoE Primary School
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District