Bentley is a suburb of

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, England two miles north of the city centre. The population of the ward (also including Arksey, Shaftholme, Toll Bar and part of

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at the 2021 census was 18,195. The Bentley built-up area subdivision had a population of 12,048.

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, 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

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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

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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
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