Description

Bentley, a parish in Suffolk, at the junction of the G.E.R. with the Hadleigh branch, 6 miles SW of Ipswich. It has a station on the railway, and a post and money order office under Ipswich; telegraph office, Copdock. Acreage, 2875 ; population, 414. The Tollemaches had a seat here before the Conquest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £161 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style.