Bentley, Staffordshire

Historical Description

Bentley, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Staffordshire, 1 mile N of Darlaston, and 2 miles W by N of Walsall. It has a station on the M.R. Post town, Walsall. Acreage, 1448; population, 355. The inhabitants are employed largely in collieries and ironworks. There is a quarry of columnar basalt stone. The Earl of Lichfield is lord of the manor. Bentley Hall belonged to Colonel Lane, who sheltered Charles II. after the battle of Worcester.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bentley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bentley)

Maps

Online maps of Bentley are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)