Lower Benefield
| 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 in Northamptonshire, near Oundle. Less than a mile to the north-west, parted by fields, is Upper Benefield.
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]
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References
- ↑ "Key to English Place-names". http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Benefield.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1189042: Church of St. Mary (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, 1961; 1973 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3
- ↑ A History of the County of Northampton - Volume 3 pp 76-80: Parishes: Benefield (Victoria County History)