Bentley (Hampshire)

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Bentley is a place and a municipality in the district of East Hampshire in the English county of Hampshire. Bentley has 1,019 inhabitants ( 2001).

The village is situated on the main A31 road between Farnham in Surrey and Alton in Hampshire, about eight kilometers west of Farnham and ten kilometers east of Alton. Bentley is on the railway line and has a station ( Bentley Railway Station), which is currently about two kilometers to the south is in Binsted.

Bentley is known by one of the first docu-soaps ( The Village ), which was by the British radio station Radio 4 and ITV television network broadcast in the 1990s, around the world. The television report showed residents and their everyday life.

Among the personalities of Bentley include the founder of the Scout movement Robert Baden- Powell. Baden -Powell lived with his wife Olave in Bentley in her family home Pax Hill. Harold Sanderson, the owner of the White Star Line learned in 1912 in his home Jenkyn Place, Bentley of the Titanic disaster.

Bentley has two pubs: The Star (named after the car brand star of Durant Motors) and The Bull