Benson
Benson is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census gave the parish population as 4,754. It lies about a mile and a half north of Wallingford at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, where a chalk stream, Ewelme Brook, joins the River Thames next to Benson Lock.- Type: Village with 5,800 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England
- Also known as: “Benson, Oxfordshire” and “Benson, Oxon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Benson Library and Benson War Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Preston Crowmarsh and Roke.
Preston Crowmarsh
Hamlet
Preston Crowmarsh is a hamlet in Benson civil parish in South Oxfordshire. It is on the River Thames 1 mile north of Wallingford. The river can be crossed on foot here at Benson Lock.
Roke
Hamlet
Roke is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, about 3 miles north of Wallingford. It has a sixteenth-century public house, the Home Sweet Home. It is now included in the neighbouring civil parish of Berrick Salome.
Berrick Salome
Village
Berrick Salome is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles north of Wallingford. Since the 1992 boundary changes, the parish has included the whole of Roke and Rokemarsh and Berrick Prior.
Benson
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Benson, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.62118° or 51° 37′ 16″ north
Longitude
-1.10848° or 1° 6′ 31″ west
Population
5,800
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
IATA airport code
BEX
United Nations Location Code
GB BES
Open location code
9C3WJVCR+FJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Benson” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Benson (Oxfordshire)”
- Basque: “Benson”
- Bengali: “বেনসন”
- Cebuano: “Benson”
- Chinese: “Benson”
- Chinese: “本森 (牛津郡)”
- Chinese: “本森”
- Dutch: “Benson”
- Esperanto: “Benson”
- French: “Benson”
- German: “Benson”
- Gujarati: “બેન્સન”
- Irish: “Benson”
- Italian: “Benson (Oxfordshire)”
- Italian: “Benson”
- Japanese: “ベンソン”
- Kannada: “ಬೆನ್ಸನ್”
- Korean: “벤슨”
- Ladin: “Benson”
- Lithuanian: “Bensonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Benson (Oxfordshire)”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Benesingtūn”
- Persian: “بنسون، آکسفوردشر”
- Persian: “بنسون”
- Polish: “Benson”
- Portuguese: “Benson”
- Russian: “Бенсон”
- Spanish: “Benson”
- Swedish: “Benson, Oxfordshire”
- Swedish: “Benson”
- Tamil: “பென்சன்”
- Telugu: “బెన్సన్”
- Turkish: “Benson, Oxfordshire”
- Urdu: “بینسن، آکسفورڈ شائر”
- Welsh: “Benson, Swydd Rydychen”
- Welsh: “Benson”
- “Benson”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Three Horseshoes Public House and Benson Post Office.
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