Bentley, South Yorkshire

Bentley

A19 road through Bentley
Bentley
Bentley shown within South Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE565056
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Doncaster
Postcode district DN5
Dialling code 01302
Police South Yorkshire
Fire South Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
EU Parliament Yorkshire and the Humber

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]

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.

Bentley is made up of many parts; West End, New Village and Rostholme. Streets in Bentley include Cooke Street and High Street.

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


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