Binbrook

Binbrook
Church of St Mary and St Gabriel, Binbrook
Binbrook
Binbrook shown within Lincolnshire
Population	892 (2011)
OS grid reference	TF210940
• London	130 mi (210 km) s
District	East Lindsey
Shire county	Lincolnshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Lincoln
Postcode district	LN8
Dialling code	1472
Police	Lincolnshire
Fire	Lincolnshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Louth and Horncastle
List of places UK England Lincolnshire 53°25′47″N 0°10′47″W / 53.429693°N 0.179742°W / 53.429693; -0.179742Coordinates: 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, it now has a population of about 700, rising to 892 at the Census 2011.

Binbrook Grade II listedAnglican 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.

Binbrook is close to the site of Binbrook Airfield, originally opened as RAF Binbrook; the airfield housing is now the new village of Brookenby.

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.

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

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