Place:Bentworth, Hampshire, England

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NameBentworth
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Located inHampshire, England
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Bentworth is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England, about northwest of the town of Alton, just west of the A339 road between Alton and Basingstoke. The Civil Parish of Bentworth has an area of , of which about seven per cent is woodland. The village of Bentworth itself is in the centre of the Civil Parish area, which also contains the hamlets of Ashley, Burkham, Holt End, Thedden and Wivelrod. At the south side of the Civil Parish area at Wivelrod is one of the highest points in the county of Hampshire at 217 m (712 ft) above sea level. According to the 2001 census, Bentworth has a population of 466.

The village of Bentworth has a long history which can be traced to Saxon times, and Roman remains have been found in the area. After the Norman conquest in 1066, in the Domesday Survey of 1086 the manor of Bentworth was part of the Odiham Hundred. The village of Bentworth has grown in recent years, with the construction of several houses, as well as the post-Second World War development in Glebe Fields.

The Civil Parish area contains several large houses, such as the pre and post-1832 Bentworth Hall, Bentworth Lodge, Burkham House, Gaston Grange and Thedden Grange. The estate of Bentworth Manor was split up as a result of various sales between the 1930s to the early 1980s. St Mary's Church, a Grade II* listed building, is at the centre of the village and has parts that probably date from the late 1100s.

The village has two public houses – the Star Inn and the Sun Inn – and a primary school, a cricket club and the Bentworth Garden Club. Bentworth formerly had a railway station on the east side of the parish area, the Bentworth and Lasham railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, until the railway's closure to passenger traffic in 1932. The nearest railway station is now 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of the village, at Alton.

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