Bentley, Hampshire

Human settlement in England

Bentley

District

East Hampshire

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townFARNHAMPostcode districtGU10Dialling code01420Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

East Hampshire

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

51°11′38″N 0°52′39″W / 51.19401°N 0.87756°W / 51.19401; -0.87756

Bentley is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The parish has changed little over centuries and currently measures 2,299 acres (9.30 km²), the same size it measured in 1875.^[1]^: 33 when the population was 731 The village is north of the A31 road between Farnham and Alton, about five miles (8 km) southwest of Farnham and six miles (10 km) northeast of Alton. The village is served by Bentley railway station, which is about one mile (1.6 km) to the south, in the parish of Binsted against Alice Holt Forest.

There are two pubs in the village: The Star Inn (named after a car)^[2] and The Bull Inn.^[3]

Culture

Bentley was the location of a Radio 4 and ITV Docu-Drama from the 1990s called The Village, which focused on local residents and their daily lives.^[4]

Twinned with Newton Haven the village is proud of its culture.

Notable residents

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement, lived in Bentley at Pax Hill^[5]
Sir William Pike, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Harold Sanderson, the owner of the White Star Line, learned of the sinking of the Titanic whilst at his home Jenkyn Place in Bentley.

References

^ Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorset. London: E. R. Kelly. 1875.
^ The Star Inn, Bentley
^ The Bull Inn, Bentley
^ The Village TV Series
^ Robert Baden-Powell Archived August 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

External links

Media related to Bentley, Hampshire at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Towns, villages and hamlets in the East Hampshire district
Adhurst Alton Arford Ashley Barford Beech Bentley Bentworth Binsted Blackmoor Blacknest Blendworth Bordean Bordon Bramshott Bucks Horn Oak Buriton Burkham Catherington Chalton Charlwood Chawton Clanfield Cold Ash Hill Colemore Conford Deadwater Ditcham Durford Wood East Meon East Tisted East Worldham Empshott Farringdon Finchdean Flexcombe Four Marks Froxfield Green Froyle Golden Pot Grayshott Greatham Griggs Green Hammer Bottom Hartley Mauditt Hattingley Hawkley Headley Headley Down High Cross Hill Brow Hollywater Holt End Holt Pound Holybourne Horndean Idsworth Isington Kingsley Kitwood Langrish Lasham Lindford Liphook Liss Liss Forest Longmoor Lovedean Lower Wield Medstead Monkwood Neatham New Copse Newton Valence North Street Nursted Oakhanger Oakshott Passfield Petersfield Pinewood Priors Dean Privett Ramsdean Ropley Ropley Dean Rowland's Castle Selborne Shalden Sheet Sleaford Soldridge South Hay Southrope South Town Standford Steep Steep Marsh Stroud Thedden Tickley Upper Wield West Liss West Tisted West Worldham Weston Wheatley Whitehill Wivelrod Wyck

Towns, villages and hamlets in the East Hampshire district