Bentley, Suffolk

Human settlement in England

Bentley

District

Babergh

Suffolk

Region

East

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51°59′28″N 1°04′08″E / 51.991°N 1.069°E / 51.991; 1.069

Bentley is a village and civil parish in the Babergh district of Suffolk, England, about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Ipswich. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 776.^[1]

Bentley has a Church of England parish church,^[2] a Reformed Baptist church,^[3] a Church of England primary school,^[4] a pub,^[5] a Village Hall^[6] and a riding school.^[7] A community owned village shop opened in the summer of 2016.^[8]

Bentley has a parish council.^[9] It has also a forum called Bentley Free Speech ^[10] that comments on matters relating to the parish council and other village issues. There also an alternative news site called Bentley News,^[11] which is managed by a local resident.

The Eastern Union Railway was built through the parish and opened on 15 July 1846. Bentley railway station was about 1⁄2 mile (800 m) east of the village, and served the area until British Railways closed it in 1966. The station was a junction between 1847 and 1965 for the Hadleigh branch line.^[12] The branch line also had a short-lived station called Bentley Church (1847-1853).^[13]^[14]

The main line railway is now (2016) known as the Great Eastern Main Line.

References

^ "Area: Bentley (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^ Archbishops' Council (2015). "St Mary Bentley, Bentley". A Church Near You. Church of England. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^ Bentley Reformed Baptist Church
^ "Bentley CEVC Primary School". Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
^ The Case is Altered
^ Bentley Village Hall (Suffolk) Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine is the main Hub of the village activities
^ Bentley Riding School
^ Bentley Stores
^ Bentley Parish Council
^ [http://bentleyfreespeech.freeforums.org Bentley Free Speech]
^ "Bentley News". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
^ Mitchell, Vic (June 2011). Branch Lines to Harwich and Hadleigh. Midhurst: Middleton Press. Historical Background. ISBN 978-1-908174-02-4.
^ Richard S, Joby (January 2000). "Brassey, Bruff, Locke and the Norwich Extension". Great Eastern Journal. 101: 26.
^ Moffat, Hugh (1987). East Anglia's first railways. Lavenham: Terence Dalton Limited. pp. 176–180. ISBN 0-86138-038-X.