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ID: 1028460
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028460
Record Type:
administrative
Benson (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 001 07 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.1167
decimal degrees
Note:
The lock on the River Thames here is where the Romans crossed the ford and where Offa of Mercia won a victory over the Saxons in 777.
Names:
Benson
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Bensington
(
C
,
V
)
Besentone
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Besintone
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Oxfordshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Benson
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bensington..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
216
Benson..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
216
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
26
Besentone..........
[
VP
]
....................
Domesday Book (1985)
216
Besintone..........
[
VP
]
....................
Domesday Book (1985)
216
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
216
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2589706
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
26
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Domesday Book (1985)
216
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