Bentley is a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England two miles north of the town of Doncaster. The population of the ward (also including Arksey, Shaftholme, Toll Bar and part of Scawthorpe) within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster at the 2011 Census was 14,191.[1] The Bentley built-up area subdivision (including Arksey, Scawthorpe, Scawsby and Cusworth) had a population of 27,145.

Bentley
Bentley railway station
Bentley Shown within the Borough of Doncaster Show map of the Borough of Doncaster Bentley Location within South Yorkshire Show map of South Yorkshire
Population	27,145 (2011, built-up area subdivision)
OS grid reference	SE565056
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Doncaster
Postcode district	DN5
Dialling code	01302
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53.551°N 1.144°W / 53.551; -1.144

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]

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.[4]

See also

• Listed buildings in Doncaster (Bentley Ward)
• Bentley (South Yorkshire) railway station

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bentley, South Yorkshire.

• Bentley Explosion at 7am Sunday 13 June 2010
• Flood pictures 2007
• BBC News - Residents braced for more floods, 30 June 2007
• BBC News - Misery goes on for flood villages, 2 July 2007
• Conveyance of Bentley, The Topographer and Genealogist, John Gough Nichols, 1858

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