BENSHINGTON, (Oxfordshire) or BENSON, on the Thames, a little below its conjunction with the Isis. It was formerly the estate of the Hollands, Es. of Kent. The parsonage of its Ch. which is a donative, was given by Hen. VIII. to his college of Christ-church, Oxford. In the neighbourhood was a royal palace, formerly a beautiful structure, but very much decayed, by reason of its situation near boggy low grounds. The Roman way cast up bet. Alcester and Wallin ford, goes over the Thames here on the W. side of the Ch. and is called by the inh. Medler's Bank.