Offa's defeat of Cynewulf of Wessex at Bensington (modern Benson, Oxfordshire) gave Mercia control of the middle Thames valley and substantially reduced West Saxon territory. It represents the height of Mercian power under Offa and pushed Wessex back from lands it had controlled since Ceawlin's time in the sixth century.
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