Binbrook

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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 here that famous English Electric Lightning aircraft would often 'scramble' to intercept Russian planes over the North Sea.

RAF Binbrook was also used to film the airfield scenes in the 1989 movie Memphis Belle.