Benson
Benson is a locality in South Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England. Benson is situated nearby to the village Ewelme, as well as near the hamlet Preston Crowmarsh.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wallingford Castle and Wallingford Museum.
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".
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 Benson.
Wallingford
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Wallingford is an historic 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.
Benson
Village
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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.
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.
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″ northLongitude
-1.0882° or 1° 5′ 17″ westElevation
217 feet (66 metres)Open location code
9C3WJW76+QPGeoNames ID
7300945
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