Binbrook

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Binbrook
Lincolnshire
St.Mary and St.Gabriel's church, Binbrook, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 43715.jpg
Church of St Mary and St Gabriel, Binbrook
Location
Grid reference: TF210940
Location: 53°25’47"N, 0°10’47"W
Data
Population: 892  ((2011))
Post town: Market Rasen
Postcode: LN8
Dialling code: 01472
Local Government
Council: East Lindsey
Parliamentary
constituency:
Louth and Horncastle

Binbrook is a village in Lindsey, the northern part of Lincolnshire. It is on the B1203 road, eight miles north-east of Market Rasen.

Previously a larger market town,[1] it had a population of 892 at the 2011 Census.

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

Parish church

The parish church, St Mary and St Gabriel, was built in 1869. It is a Grade II listed building.[2]

There were formerly two village churches, St Mary and St Gabriel, since disappeared. The new church, with joint dedication, was built in 1869 by James Fowler.[1][3]

Orford

The parish of Binbrook contains the site of the lost mediæval village of Orford.[4] 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 its suppression by Henry VIII in 1539, the priory held a prioress and 7 nuns.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cox, J. Charles (1916) Lincolnshire pp. 64-65; Methuen & Co. Ltd
  2. National Heritage List 1063134: Church of St Mary and St Gabriel (Grade II listing)
  3. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1964; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09620-0page 191
  4. National Monuments Record: No. 351872 – Orford