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Village in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England · United Kingdom

Long Bennington

Long Bennington is a linear village and civil parish in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just off the A1 road, 7 miles (11 km) north of Grantham and 5 miles (8 km) south of Newark-on-Trent.

Long Bennington
Long Bennington · Kreuzschnabel
The place

Long Bennington is a linear village and civil parish in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just off the A1 road, 7 miles (11 km) north of Grantham and 5 miles (8 km) south of Newark-on-Trent. It had a population of 2,100 in 2014 and 2,018 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Long Bennington

One place 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
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary’s Church, Staunton-in-the-Vale is a Grade II* listed Church of England parish church in Staunton, Nottinghamshire.

    3.2 km · Grade II* listed church in Staunton in the Vale, Newark and Sherwood, 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.

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Getting to Long Bennington

Airports
East Midlands (EMA), 42 km · Birmingham (BHX), 90 km · Manchester (MAN), 109 km
Stations
RAF Bottesford, 3.5 km
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Long Bennington
    27 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £3–4
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Long Bennington
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £10–14
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Long Bennington
    112 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Long Bennington

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 Long Bennington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextDirect trains to London mean that the capital is in easy reach for a day trip or to continue your travels.

From Wikivoyage: East Midlands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    259 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    384 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    404 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    439 km

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

Around it

Next door to Long Bennington

Long Bennington is 27 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Fostonvillage and civil parish in Lincolnshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Kilvingtonvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England3.6 km
  • Westborough and Dry Doddingtoncivil parish in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, UK2.9 km
  • Dry Doddingtonvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Westboroughvillage in Lincolnshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Stauntoncivil parish in Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England2.8 km