South Benfleet
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South Benfleet is a town in the Castle Point district of Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. The Benfleet post town includes South Benfleet, Thundersley and Hadleigh. It is located north of Canvey Island and is served by Benfleet railway station. It is home to the South Benfleet Primary School, which was used to temporarily house local residents during the widespread flooding of 1953.
The Battle of Benfleet took place in 894 between the Vikings and Saxons. It was towards the end of the Saxon period and the Thames and other waterways made the area vulnerable to Viking attacks. Benfleet was used as a Viking base. However the Vikings were defeated in the battle by the army of King Alfred under the command of his son Edward the Elder and his son-in-law Aethelred of Mercia.
In July 2002 Castle Point District Council named a 6-mile cycle way from approximately Benfleet railway station to approximately Leigh-on-Sea railway station, the "de Neumann Way" after Captain Peter de Neumann, GM.
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