Bentley, South Yorkshire

Bentley is a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England two miles north of the town of Doncaster. The population of the ward within the Doncaster MBC borough at the 2011 Census was 14,191.[1] 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.[2][3]

For the Bentley hamlet near Beverley, see Bentley, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Bentley

A19 road through Bentley
Bentley
Shown within the Borough of Doncaster
Bentley
Location within South Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE565056
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDoncaster
Postcode districtDN5
Dialling code01302
PoliceSouth Yorkshire
FireSouth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire

A former mining village, it lies on the River Don. Bentley Colliery, which is now Bentley Park, 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. Paul's dates back to 1891. A second church, Church of SS Philip and James in the New Village area was dedicated in 1915

Bentley is made up of many parts; 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.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Doncaster ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. The Topographer and Genealogist editor John Gough Nichols, 1858.
  3. Deeds between Hastings and Levetts, Cooke of Wheatley Muniments, Sheffield Archives, The National Archives, nationalarchives.gov.uk
  4. "Latest flooding information - Doncaster Council". www.doncaster.gov.uk. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.


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