Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire District
Benson

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 at the foot of the , where a chalk stream, Ewelme Brook, joins the next to Benson Lock.
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  • 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.

Library
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Memorial
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Brendan and Ruth McCartney, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Preston Crowmarsh and Roke.

Hamlet
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in Benson civil parish in South Oxfordshire. It is on the 1 mile north of . The river can be crossed on foot here at Benson Lock.

Hamlet
Photo: Colin Bates, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in South Oxfordshire, about 3 miles north of . It has a sixteenth-century public house, the Home Sweet Home. It is now included in the neighbouring civil parish of .

Village
Photo: Motacilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles north of . Since the 1992 boundary changes, the parish has included the whole of and Rokemarsh and Berrick Prior.

Benson

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
node 1177317590
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2655886
Wiki­data ID
Q2351343
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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”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Benson”. Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.