Bentley, South Yorkshire
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| Bentley | |
  Bentley shown within South Yorkshire |
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| Metropolitan county | South Yorkshire |
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| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DONCASTER |
| Postcode district | DN5 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| European Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
Bentley (grid reference SE565056) is a village in South Yorkshire, England two miles north of the town of Doncaster. The village was once owned by Edmund Hastings of Plumtree, Nottingham, 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.[1][2]
A former mining village it lies on the River Don, Bentley and the nearby hamlet of Toll Bar were badly affected by floods in June 2007.
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- 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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