Bentley is a suburb of

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

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, England two miles north of the city of

. The population of the ward (also including

Arksey Arksey is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It had an estimated population of 1,303 as of 2010. It was the birthplace of the children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd on 9 January 1890. Arksey has four ...

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, Toll Bar and part of Scawthorpe) within the

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at the 2011 Census was 14,191. The Bentley built-up area subdivision (including Arksey, Scawthorpe,

Scawsby Scawsby is a suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles north-west of the city centre on the A635 road to Barnsley close to its terminus with the A638. Geography Scawthorpe, Sunnyfields, Marr, Cuswo ...

and

Cusworth Cusworth is a village and suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, located to its north-west within the civil parish of Sprotbrough and Cusworth and the City of Doncaster, with a population of 4,728. It is home to Cusworth Hall, an 18t ...

) had a population of 27,145. Historically within the

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, the village was once owned by Edmund Hastings of

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, who had inherited it from his wife Copley's Sprotborough family. Hastings subsequently sold the manor to John

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, 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,

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. 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.

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Bentley Explosion at 7am Sunday 13 June 2010Flood pictures 2007BBC News - Residents braced for more floods, 30 June 2007BBC News - Misery goes on for flood villages, 2 July 2007Conveyance of Bentley, The Topographer and Genealogist, John Gough Nichols, 1858
Villages in Doncaster Mining communities in England {{SouthYorkshire-geo-stub

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