BENTLEY, a parish in Samford district, Suffolk; at the junction of the Eastern Counties railway with the Hadleigh branch, 6 miles SW of Ipswich. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Ipswich. Acres, 2,801. Real property, £3,725. Pop., 453. Houses, 95. The property is divided among a few. The Tollemaches had a seat here before the Conquest. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £182.* Patron, the Rev.E. R. Keene. The church is good; and there are national schools.

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