Bentley, South Yorkshire Explained

Static Image Name:Bentley Station - geograph.org.uk - 178102.jpg
Static Image Caption:Bentley railway station
Country:England
Coordinates:53.551°N -1.144°W
Map Type:South Yorkshire
Official Name:Bentley
Population:12,048
Population Ref:(2021, built-up area subdivision)
Metropolitan County:South Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Post Town:Doncaster
Postcode Area:DN
Postcode District:DN5
Dial Code:01302
Os Grid Reference:SE565056
Pushpin Map:United Kingdom Borough of Doncaster
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within the City of Doncaster
Type:Suburb

Bentley is a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England two miles north of the city centre. The population of the ward (also including Arksey, Shaftholme, Toll Bar and part of Scawthorpe) within the City of Doncaster at the 2021 census was 18,195.[1] [2] The Bentley built-up area subdivision had a population of 12,048.[3]

Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village was once owned by Edmund Hastings of Plumtree, Nottinghamshire, who had inherited it from his wife Copley's Sprotborough family. Hastings subsequently sold the manor to John Levett, a York lawyer born at High Melton who married the niece of Hastings's wife, who then conveyed it to Sir Arthur Ingram of York, High Sheriff of Yorkshire.[4] [5]

A former mining village, it lies on the River Don. Bentley Colliery, which is now Bentley Community Woodland, closed in December 1993. Bentley and the nearby hamlet of Toll Bar were badly affected by floods in June 2007.

The local parish church of St. Peter dates back to 1891. A second church, Church of SS Philip and James in the New Village area was dedicated in 1915

Bentley includes West End, New Village and Rostholme. Streets in Bentley include Cooke Street and High Street.

During the 2019 United Kingdom floods residents of Bentley were asked to leave their homes after the area suffered flooding.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bentley Ward in Yorkshire and the Humber. 25 December 2023. citypopulation.de.
  2. Web site: Doncaster ward population 2011. 6 March 2016. Office for National Statistics. Neighbourhood Statistics.
  3. Web site: Bentley in South Yorkshire (Yorkshire and the Humber). 25 December 2023. citypopulation.de.
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA519 The Topographer and Genealogist
  5. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-cwmba&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 Deeds between Hastings and Levetts, Cooke of Wheatley Muniments, Sheffield Archives, The National Archives, nationalarchives.gov.uk
  6. Web site: Latest flooding information - Doncaster Council. 11 November 2019. www.doncaster.gov.uk. en. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20191111135418/https://www.doncaster.gov.uk/News/latest-flooding-information . 11 November 2019 . 11 November 2019.