linear village
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and
civil parish
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in
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford. The 2011 census reports 133,788 people at 1.4 p ...
district
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of
Lincolnshire
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, England, just off the
A1 road
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* A01 highway (Afghanistan), a long ring road or beltway connecting Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar
* A1 motorway (Albania), connecting Durrës and Kukës
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, north of
Grantham
Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln a ...
and south of
Newark-on-Trent
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. It had a population of 2,100 in 2014 and 2,018 at the 2011 Census.
History
Long Bennington Priory was an Alien house granted in 1462 to the priory of Mount Grace. The village has connections with the Younghusband family, whose members include Francis Younghusband head of a British invading force into Tibet in 1904 and negotiated a treaty after most Tibetan officials had fled with the
Dalai Lama
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into the countryside. Long Bennington is supposed to be the last place where King Harold of
Wessex
la, Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum
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camped before the
Battle of Hastings
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.
On the morning of Friday 14 January 1966, coming back from a concert at the
University of Hull
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, type = Public
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, the group
Manfred Mann
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were injured when their
Ford Zodiac
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, driven by Anthony Hales, skidded on ice in the village. They were taken to Grantham Hospital; singer Paul Jones had a broken arm and
Manfred Mann
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had a chest injury.
Geography
The Viking Way has passed to the south-east since 1997 to avoid a direct crossing of the A1. The
River Witham
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runs to the east. Lying beside the
A1 road
A list of roads designated A1, sorted by alphabetical order of country.
* A01 highway (Afghanistan), a long ring road or beltway connecting Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar
* A1 motorway (Albania), connecting Durrës and Kukës
* A001 highw ...
, the village main street was once part of the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh.
In December 1968 a bypass was opened. It was made of
concrete
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and excessively noisy until it was resurfaced with
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in 2003, at a cost of £4.4 million. West Kesteven Rural District Council did not like the ideas for the £942,000 Long Bennington bypass, calling it ''an absolute waste of money, and good food-producing land''.
The
British Frozen Food Federation
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is based in the village.
Leonardo DRS
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History
Diagnostic/Retrieval Systems, ...
(DRS Technologies UK) have a facility in the north of the village on the Long Bennington Business Park, where they have their Air Systems EW Test business.
Further south near Three Shire Oak, is the Roseland Business Park. Bennington Carriages, west of the village and the bypass at
Authorpe
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Long Bennington has a parish council consisting of 11 councillors. The village is twinned with the
Normandy
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village of
Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse
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Methodist
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chapel, St Swithin's
Anglican
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church, and a primary school. Its
public house
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