Binbrook
{{short description|Village in England}}
{{See also|Binbrook, Ontario}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}
{{Infobox UK place
| static_image_name= St.Mary and St.Gabriel's church, Binbrook, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 43715.jpg
| static_image_alt=
| static_image_caption= Church of St Mary and St Gabriel, Binbrook
| country = England
| official_name= Binbrook
|map_alt=
| coordinates = {{coord|53.429693|-0.179742|display=inline,title}}
| population= 892
| population_ref= (2011)
| shire_district= East Lindsey
| shire_county = Lincolnshire
| region= East Midlands
| constituency_westminster= Louth and Horncastle
| post_town= Market Rasen
| postcode_district = LN8
| postcode_area= LN
| dial_code= 01472
| os_grid_reference= TF210940
| london_distance_mi= 130
| london_direction= s
}}
Binbrook is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the B1203 road, and {{convert|8|mi|km|0}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11120723&c=Binbrook&d=16&e=62&g=6445904&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1439896030618&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|access-date=18 August 2015|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}
It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Binnibroc.{{Cite web |title=Binbrook {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TF2193/binbrook/ |access-date=2023-10-07 |website=opendomesday.org}}
Binbrook Grade II listed{{NHLE|num=1063134 |desc=Church of St Mary and St Gabriel|access-date=29 June 2011}} Anglican parish church is dedicated to St Mary and St Gabriel. There were two village churches, St Mary and St Gabriel, since disappeared. St Gabriel's was already in ruins in 1822 while St Mary's was demolished in 1867.{{Cite book |title=The Lincolnshire Village Book |publisher=Countryside Books |year=1990 |isbn=1 85306 077 1 |edition=reprint 1994 |location=Newbury, Berkshire |pages=19}} 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. {{ISBN|0-300-09620-8}} In 1988 a new stained glass window was gifted to the church to commemorate the RAF presence from 1940 to 1988.
Binbrook was the birthplace of the traditional singer Joseph Taylor, one of the Lincolnshire singers recorded by Percy Grainger.
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.{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13693335&c=binbrook&d=14&e=62&g=6445904&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1477612781269&enc=1|title=Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics – Area: Binbrook (Ward)|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|access-date=28 October 2016}}
Orford
To the north is the site of the lost medieval village of Orford.{{PastScape|mnumber=351872|year=2007|mname=Orford|access-date=10 April 2010}} Orford was the site of a priory 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. At the time of suppression in 1539 it held a prioress and 7 nuns.
References
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External links
{{Commons category-inline|Binbrook}}
- [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/Binbrook/ "Binbrook"], Genuki.org.uk; retrieved 29 June 2011
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060429014327/http://www.binbrook.org.uk/ Village web site]
- [http://www.binbrook.lincs.sch.uk Binbrook CoE Primary School]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060517061036/http://www.binbrook.org.uk/binbrook.htm St Mary & St Gabriel Church]
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Category:Villages in Lincolnshire