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 the first western man to enter Lhasa. Long Bennington is supposed to be the last place King Harold of Wessex camped before the Battle of Hastings.
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