RAF Benson
Royal Air Force Benson or RAF Benson is a Royal Air Force station located at Benson, near Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire, England. It is a front-line station and from 2009 to 2025 was home to the RAF's fleet of Westland Puma HC2 support helicopters, which were used primarily for the transportation of troops & equipment.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Airbase
- Description: Royal Air Force main operating base in Oxfordshire, England.
- Also known as: “Royal Air Force Benson”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Benson Library and Church of St Helen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benson and Preston Crowmarsh.
Benson
Village
Photo: Roger Templeman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Preston Crowmarsh
Hamlet
Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Ewelme
Village
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Ewelme is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles northeast of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,048.
RAF Benson
- Categories: Royal Air Force station and transportation
- Location: Benson, South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Tajik—“RAF Benson” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “RAF Benson”
- Cebuano: “RAF Benson”
- Chinese: “本森皇家空軍基地”
- Chinese: “本臣皇家空軍基地”
- Chinese: “班森”
- Dutch: “RAF Benson”
- French: “RAF Benson”
- German: “RAF Benson”
- Japanese: “ベンソン空軍基地”
- Malay: “Pangkalan Udara Benson”
- Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Benson”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی بنسون”
- Swedish: “RAF Benson”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате бнсун”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wallingford Castle and The George Hotel.
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