Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Old Bennington:
42.884417, -73.214703
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Old Bennington
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Bennington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Old Bennington.
Within Vermont, the name Old Bennington is unique.
Beyond Vermont, there is another community also named Old Bennington in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Oklahoma
Bryan County
This Old Bennington is located in Bryan County and lies 1,369 miles [2,203.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Old Bennington that is located in Bennington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bryan County community of Old Bennington.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Old Bennington ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
Center White Creek (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Center White Creek is located in Washington County (NY)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a village such as Old Bennington to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Old Bennington and extending to:
Manchester, which is the Seat of Bennington County, lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Old Bennington to Manchester, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 100 miles [160.9 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 339 miles [545.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,573 miles [8,968.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,287 miles [10,117.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,162 miles [6,698.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Old Bennington) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Old Bennington to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Bennington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.8844, Longitude: -73.2147 In this case, the coordinates for Old Bennington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.205 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.041 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.292 degrees.