Benson Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England, close to Benson, Oxfordshire but on the opposite bank of the river. The first pound lock here was built by the Thames Navigation Commission in 1788 and it was replaced by the present masonry lock in 1870. The distance between Benson Lock and Cleeve Lock downstream is 6.5 miles (10.4 km) - the longest distance between locks on the River Thames.
The keeper's house and lock at Benson Lock
Walkway across Benson Weir (river in full spate)
Winter view of the river upstream from Shillingford
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