Benson

Benson was the richest royal manor in Oxfordshire when the Domesday Book was written, and it has been turning down the attention ever since. Offa of Mercia fought a battle to take it off Wessex, which is still the most effort anyone has made to get into Benson. It also lies in a frost pocket that sometimes records the coldest night in the country, and that is the only national record a village can hold without anyone turning up to watch.