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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wallingford Castle and Benson Library.

Wallingford Castle

Castle

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Wallingford Castle is a medieval castle situated in Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire, adjacent to the River Thames. Established in the 11th century as a motte-and-bailey design within an Anglo-Saxon burgh, it grew to become what historian Nicholas Brooks has described as "one of the most powerful royal castles of the 12th and 13th centuries".

Benson Library

Library

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wallingford Museum

Museum

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Wallingford Museum is a museum with collections of local interest in the town of Wallingford in the English county of Oxfordshire. The museum has an extensive collection relating to the town's history.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wallingford and Ewelme.

Wallingford

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Wallingford is a market town and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, 12 miles north of Reading, 13 miles south of Oxford and 11 miles north west of Henley-on-Thames.

Ewelme

Village

Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Benson

Type: Locality
Location: South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.6145° or 51° 36′ 52″ north

Longitude

-1.0882° or 1° 5′ 17″ west

Elevation

217 feet (66 metres)

Open location code

9C3WJW76+QP

GeoNames ID

7300945

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