Bentley, South Yorkshire

Bentley, South Yorkshire

infobox UK place|
country = England
latitude = 53.5238
longitude = -1.0849
map_type = South Yorkshire
official_name = Bentley
metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire
region = Yorkshire and the Humber
post_town = DONCASTER
postcode_area = DN
postcode_district = DN5
os_grid_reference = SE565056 Bentley 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. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=Nh0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA519&lpg=PA519&dq=levett+doncaster&source=web&ots=JDlm-ScS5H&sig=ZAOV0Aa1WkleDKA0oYxIQOOlnbY&hl=en The Topographer and Genealogist, John Gough Nichols, 1858] ] [ [http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/documentxsl.asp?com=1&i=13&nbKey=1&stylesheet=xslA2A_com.xsl&keyword=wickersley&properties=0601 Deeds between Hastings and Levetts, Access to Archives, a2a.org.uk] ]

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.

References

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6256946.stm BBC News - Residents braced for more floods, 30 June 2007]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/6260218.stm BBC News - Misery goes on for flood villages, 2 July 2007]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Nh0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA519&lpg=PA519&dq=levett+mote&source=web&ots=JDll1UdT0F&sig=OnfNxA_UgiX1JhxAt6b-EAuIsBM&hl=en#PPA519,M1 Conveyance of Bentley, The Topographer and Genealogist, John Gough Nichols, 1858]


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