Binbrook

Binbrook

:"See also: Binbrook, Ontario"

Binbrook is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It has a population of about 700 and is roughly between Grimsby, Market Rasen, and Louth.

It is the site of Binbrook Airfield, originally opened as RAF Binbrook, a Royal Air Force airfield that opened in June 1940 during the Second World War. In the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds, RAF Binbrook was a front line RAF fighter base throughout the sixties and most of the seventies. It was from here that English Electric Lightning aircraft often departed to intercept Russian planes over the North Sea.

RAF Binbrook served as the American base represented in the 1989 movie "Memphis Belle".

External links

* [http://www.binbrook.org.uk Village web site]
* [http://www.binbrook.lincs.sch.uk Primary school]
* [http://www.binbrookbowling.org.uk Binbrook Bowling Club]
* [http://beehive.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=1778 Parish Council]
* [http://www.binbrook.org.uk/binbrook.htm St Mary & St Gabriel church]
* [http://ufocasebook.com/rafbinbrook.html Mysterious disappearance of a Lightning in 1970]
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