Benson, Oxfordshire
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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.
St Helen's parish church
Second World War graves of Polish and Czechoslovak airmen in the extension of St Helen's parish churchyard
13 Castle Square, a mid-18th-century house
Benson war memorial
The Cholsey and Wallingford Railway is a 2+1⁄2-mile (4 km) long standard gauge heritage railway in the English county of Oxfordshire. It operates along most of the length of the former Wallingford branch of the Great Western Railway (GWR), from Cholsey station, 12 miles (19 km) north of Reading on the Great Western Main Line, to a station on the outskirts of the nearby town of Wallingford.
Peckett 0-4-0ST 'Northern Gas Board No. 1' runs round the train at Cholsey
Cholsey railway station from street level; the Cholsey and Wallingford branch platform is at upper level to right of building
Platform level at Cholsey station, with the terminus of the Cholsey and Wallingford line to the left
Peckett 0-4-0ST 'Northern Gas Board No. 1' at Cholsey