Long Bennington, Allington & Barrowby

The Long Bennington, Allington and Barrowby area sits west of Grantham in South Kesteven, formed by compact villages, farmsteads and fields. Long Bennington runs beside the A1, where the modern trunk road follows the line of the old Roman Ermine Street, and the village retains a mix of services and former coaching inns set along the main route. Allington lies between Long Bennington and Barrowby, with a network of lanes and public rights of way linking smallholdings and arable parcels. Barrowby occupies higher ground to the west, its streets of stone and brick converging around the church and village green.

Local life centres on parish halls, primary schools, pubs and volunteer groups that manage allotments, sports pitches and conservation spaces. Footpaths and bridleways feed into longer county routes and provide access for walkers and riders through hedged fields, woods and the occasional orchard. Agricultural activity remains a constant presence, with winter cereals, oilseed rape and livestock shaping field patterns and seasonal work. The area’s layout — villages clustered along lanes off the A1 and linked by a tight mesh of country paths — gives a clear sense of local scale and movement.