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Benesingtun
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Old English
Alternative forms
ang Bensingtūn
Proper noun
Benesingtūn m
ang Benson village/and/cpar in dist/South Oxfordshire co/Oxfordshire cc/England
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
ang An. DCCLXXVII Hēr Cynewulf ⁊ Offa ġefuhton ymb Benesingtūn ⁊ Offa ġenam þone tūn. Year 777 In this year Cynewulf and Offa fought near Benson and Offa seized the town.
Descendants
en Benson