Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BENTLEY (Little)

BENTLEY (Little), a parish in Tendring district, Essex; 2¾ miles NNE of Bentley r. station, and 7½ E of Colchester. It has a post office under Colchester. Acres, 2,012. Real property, £3,453. Pop., 458. Houses, 101. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £650.* Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Little Bentley CP/AP       Tendring RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place names: BENTLEY     |     BENTLEY LITTLE     |     LITTLE BENTLEY
Place: Little Bentley

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