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NOTE: The name of this parish is Benington, not Bennington.
Benington is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Boston in Lincolnshire, England, and approximately east of Boston, and on the A52 road. The parish contains the hamlets of Benington Sea End and West End. Nearby villages are Butterwick and Leverton. Benington parish has a population of 569, increasing to 580 at the 2011 Census. It is one of eighteen parishes which, together with Boston, form the borough. Local government has been arranged in this way since the reorganisation of 1 April 1974, which resulted from the Local Government Act 1972. The parish forms part of the Coastal electoral ward. Hitherto, the parish had formed part of Boston Rural District, in the Parts of Holland. Holland was one of the three divisions (formally known as parts) of the traditional county of Lincolnshire. Since the Local Government Act of 1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself. The name derives from Old English meaning "Bennas farm or settlement". The parish church is a Grade I listed building dedicated to All Saints and dating from the 13th to 15th centuries, although it was restored in 1873 by James Fowler of Louth. It has a 14th-century font. It closed as a church in 2003 (with its last service in 2001) and was boarded up. In 2015, the Benington Community Heritage Trust received a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and as at early 2021 it is being refurbished for use as a community centre "The Beonna at All Saints" (named after Beonna, an eighth century king of East Anglia). Purril's Almshouses date from the 15th century, although rebuilt in 1728, and are Grade II listed.
The distance omitted in the excerpt from Wikipedia is "approximately 4 miles (6 km) east of the town of Boston." [edit] Research Tips for the Boston, Lincolnshire, AreaFrom 1889 until 1974 Lincolnshire was divided into three administrative counties: Parts of Holland (in the southeast), Parts of Kesteven and Parts of Lindsey (further north and/or west). These formal names do not fit with modern grammatical usage, but that is what they were named, nonetheless. The southern part of Lincolnshire, particularly the Parts of Holland, is very low-lying and land had to be drained for agriculture to be successful. These areas are named "The Fens". Fenland is a feature of the Boston Rural District and Horncastle Rural District areas. Fenlands tended to be extraparochial until the mid 1850s, but were then identified with names and given the title "civil parish". Many were abolished in 1906, and became parts of larger neighbouring parishes. As a result, Wikipedia no longer provides articles on some of these small low-populated areas. Sources
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