Bentham (North Yorkshire)

54.11771 - 2.510083Koordinaten: 54 ° 7 ' N, 2 ° 31 ' W

Bentham is a town with 2994 inhabitants ( 2001) and a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The place consists of the districts high Bentham ( occasionally Higher Bentham ), which is often referred to as Bentham generally and the west of it lying low Bentham (54 ° 7 ' N, 2 ° 32' W54.119219 - 2.53681 ).

History

The oldest traces of settlement were found in Low Bentham. A Roman road ran past the present site. In the west tower of St. John the Baptist Church from the 15th century was an Anglo-Saxon cross dating from the 8th century found, indicative of a corresponding population. The Church of St. John the Baptist himself was first mentioned in 1086 in the Doomsday Book. The church is a Grade II * monument today, was heavily remodeled in the 19th century.

King Edward I gave the Civil parish of Bentham in 1306 the market rights, a market but was held in Burton- in-Lonsdale and only later moved to Bentham.

Since 1750, the first woolen mill was established in High Bentham, the others soon followed, all of which took advantage of the location of the village on the River Wenning for the operation of their machines. The spinning and weaving of the place was known by an invention of the natives George Phillipson whose loom made ​​it possible to weave fire hoses that are still produced today in Bentham.

Traffic

Bentham has since 1850 a station on the railway line between Leeds - Morecambe on the southern edge of the hamlet of High Bentham and Bentham called a station. The train station of Low Bentham on the same route was closed.

Swell

• History of the place and market of Bentham on Bentham.net
• Bentham Heritage Trail
• Church of St John the Baptist, Bentham on British Listed Buildings
• Photos of the stained glass windows of St John the Baptist in Bentham

• Place in North Yorkshire