Benson Lock

Places of Interest Nearby

Church of St Helen

Church

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

Church of St Helen is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Benson Lock.

Benson Library

Library

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Benson Library is situated 1,900 feet northeast of Benson Lock.

Wallingford Castle

Castle

Photo: Pitou250, Public domain.

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 Castle is situated 1 mile south of Benson Lock.

Places in the Area

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.

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.

Crowmarsh Gifford

Village

Photo: Bill Nicholls, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Crowmarsh Gifford, commonly known as Crowmarsh, is a village in the civil parish of Crowmarsh, in the South Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England.

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