Lower Benefield

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|official_name= Lower Benefield

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|unitary_england= North Northamptonshire

|lieutenancy_england= Northamptonshire

|region= East Midlands

|constituency_westminster= Corby

|post_town= Peterborough

|postcode_district = PE8

|postcode_area= PE

|dial_code= 01832

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Lower Benefield is a village on the A427 road in North Northamptonshire, England, near Oundle. It is part of the civil parish of Benefield.

The villages name means 'Open land of Bera's people'.{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Northamptonshire/Benefield|title = Key to English Place-names}}

St Mary's Church is part of the Benefice of Benefield, Glapthorn and Oundle St Peter's. It is in the Rural Deanery of Oundle and is part of the Archdeaconry of Oakham within the Diocese of Peterborough. The church is a Grade II* listed building.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1189042|desc=Church of St. Mary|grade=II*}} It has Medieval origins but was largely rebuilt c.1847 by John Macduff Derick for the Watts-Russell family of Biggin Hall, about {{convert|1.5|mi|km|1}} west of Benefield,{{Cite book | author=Pevsner, Nikolaus | others=Revised by Cherry, Bridget | title=The Buildings of England – Northamptonshire| year=1961 | publisher=Yale University Press | location=London and New Haven | isbn=978-0-300-09632-3 | pages=105–6}} and restored in 1897 and 1901. Only the chancel of the old church was retained, dating from the 14th-century.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66262 Victorian County History on-line "A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3" edited by William Page 1930]