Lower Benefield

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Lower Benefield
Northamptonshire

Lower Benefield
Location
Grid reference: SP989886
Location: 52°29’12"N, -0°32’37"W
Data
Post town: Peterborough
Postcode: PE8
Dialling code: 01832
Local Government
Council: North Northamptonshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Corby

Lower Benefield is a village on the A427 road , near Oundle.

The village's name means 'Open land of Bera's people'.[1]

St Mary's Church (which is part of the Benefice of Benefield, Glapthorn and Oundle St Peter's) is part of the Diocese of Peterborough. The church is a Grade II* listed building.[2]

The church has Mediæval origins but was largely rebuilt c.1847 by John Macduff Derick for the Watts-Russell family of Biggin Hall, about a mile and a half west of Benefield,[3] and restored in 1897 and 1901. Only the chancel of the old church was retained, dating from the 14th-century.[4]

Outside links

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about Lower Benefield)

References

  1. "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Benefield. 
  2. National Heritage List 1189042: Church of St. Mary (Grade II* listing)
  3. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3
  4. A History of the County of Northampton - Volume 3 pp 76-80: Parishes: Benefield (Victoria County History)