Bengeworth is a locality in the civil parish of Evesham, in the Wychavon district, in the county of Worcestershire, England.
Prior to the Conquest of 1066, Bengeworth was in the triple hundred of Oswaldslow, owned by Evesham Abbey and the Bishop of Worcester.
By 1086, Evesham Abbey owned the entirety of Bengeworth (scribed in Domesday once as Beningeorde (cf.
Anglo-Saxon: bene = prayer; worð = land, farm, street, public way)),[6] a larger than average hamlet whose inhabitants were a mixture of free, serf and slave.
Wulfstan II of Worcester, the last surviving pre-Conquest bishop, held the office in 1086 according to the Domesday Book.
[11] The inhabitants of Bengeworth and nearby Evesham were deeply involved in the English Civil War in the early 17th century.
Five Parliamentarian soldiers who participated in the horror of the war became convinced of the pacifist theology of the Society of Friends, and met for religious meetings in 1655 at the home of Thomas Cartwright in Bengeworth.
[19] The Bengeworth CE Academy had to suspend classroom instruction and begin a home learning program for its students on 20 March 2020 to aid the nationwide effort to decrease the rate of transmission of COVID-19.