BENSON, OXFORDSHIRE
Benson is a village and civil parish in the English county of Oxfordshire. It is located north of Wallingford. The village's name was originally Bensington until the early 19th century, and came from Anglo-Saxon ''Bænesingtun'' = "farmstead of the people of [a man called] Benesa".
The village church's tower has clock on each of the four faces with hours displayed in Roman numerals. On the east-facing side the clock face erroneously has the nine o'clock marker XI. The eleven o'clock marker is also XI.
The village is often confused with RAF Benson which is situated only 2 miles away and is a well-known RAF camp, home to the Queen's Flight of personal aircraft for many years.
The village is also a well-known frost-pocket, sometimes recording the lowest night-time temperatures in the UK.
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