Binbrook

Binbrook

Church of St Mary and St Gabriel, Binbrook
Binbrook
 Binbrook shown within Lincolnshire
Population 892 (2011)
OS grid referenceTF210940
    London 130 mi (210 km)  s
DistrictEast Lindsey
Shire countyLincolnshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town Lincoln
Postcode district LN8
Dialling code 1472
Police Lincolnshire
Fire Lincolnshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
UK ParliamentLouth and Horncastle
List of places
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England
Lincolnshire

Coordinates: 53°25′47″N 0°10′47″W / 53.429693°N 0.179742°W / 53.429693; -0.179742

Binbrook is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the B1203 road, and 8 miles (13 km) north-east from Market Rasen.

Previously a larger market town,[1] it now has a population of about 700, rising to 892 at the Census 2011.[2]

Binbrook Grade II listed[3] 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.[1][4]

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.[5]

Orford

The parish of Binbrook contains the site of the lost medieval village of Orford.[6] 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.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 64-65; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  2. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. Historic England. "Church of St Mary and St Gabriel (1063134)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  4. 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
  5. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  6. "Pastscape". Orford. English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2010.

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