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Civil parish in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Bengeo Rural

Bengeo Rural is a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England.

Bengeo Rural
Bengeo Rural · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bengeo Rural is a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It was created in 1894 from the part of the former parish of Bengeo which lay outside the borough boundaries of Hertford. The main settlements in the parish of Bengeo Rural are Tonwell and Chapmore End; the parish does not include Bengeo itself, which forms part of Hertford. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 614.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bengeo Rural

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Woodhall Park

    Woodhall Park is a Grade I listed country house near Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England. The 18th century neo-classical building is set in a walled park in the Beane valley.

    2.4 km · historic house in Hertfordshire, England, set in landscaped park · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Saint Leonard, Bengeo

    The Church of Saint Leonard is a Norman church in Bengeo, Hertfordshire, England. Located on the hillside overlooking the shared Beane and Lea valley, the Grade I Listed church dates from about 1120, and is the oldest building in Hertford.

    3.8 km · church in East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is a grade I listed parish church in Ware, Hertfordshire, England.

    3.6 km · church in Ware, East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ Church Ware

    Christ Church is a Church of England church in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. The parish was formed out of the ancient parish in 1858 and covers the East and South sides of Ware.

    3.9 km · church in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hanbury Manor

    Hanbury Manor is a converted late-Victorian country house operated by Marriott Hotels as part of the Hanbury Manor Marriott Hotel & Country Club with an adjoining golf course in Thundridge, north of Ware, Hertfordshire, 10 miles north of Greater London. The house is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England.

    2 km · country house in Thundridge, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Goldings estate

    Goldings Estate is a large Elizabethan style country house and surrounding land close to Waterford, north of Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. The house was designed by George Devey, constructed between 1871 and 1877, and is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · country house in Hertford, East Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bengeo Rural

Airports
London Luton (LTN), 21 km · London Stansted (STN), 21 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 49 km
Stations
Stapleford railway station, 2.5 km
  • London → Bengeo Rural
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £4–5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bengeo Rural
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · £15–20
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bengeo Rural
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £16–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bengeo Rural

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bengeo Rural. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA low-cost minibus company, Stansted Transfer operates between London and Stansted Airport.

From Wikivoyage: Harlow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    154 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    327 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    376 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    533 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    568 km

If you know how people move in Bengeo Rural – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bengeo Rural

Bengeo Rural is 34 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Waretown in Hertfordshire, England3.4 km
  • Watton at Stonevillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK4 km
  • Thundridgevillage and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Sacombevillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Staplefordvillage in Stapleford and Waterford, East Hertfordshire, UK1.7 km
  • Little Mundencivil parish in Hertfordshire, England3.4 km