Place:Hungry Bentley, Derbyshire, England

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NameHungry Bentley
Alt namesBenelenesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 69
Hungry Bentley Villagesource: Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) p 379
TypeTownship, Civil parish
Coordinates52.933°N 1.733°W
Located inDerbyshire, England
See alsoLongford, Derbyshire, Englandancient parish of which it was part
Appletree Hundred, Derbyshire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Ashbourne Rural, Derbyshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Hungry Bentley is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales District of Derbyshire, England, located between Uttoxeter and Derby. It includes a deserted medieval village which is a scheduled monument and has been called the best "depopulated settlement" in Derbyshire. Bentley is said to mean "a clearing with bent grass". The more unusual appellation of "Hungry" is said to refer to the poor quality of the land and the subsequent poor food of the local inhabitants.

Hungry Bently was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and was worth eleven shillings.

After the Ferrers the place was owned by the Blounts, then Lord Mountjoy and then the Browne family. At some point the manor came to be owned by the Bentley family. Edward Bentley of Hungry Bentley was tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of high treason (being a catholic) and convicted in 1586. In 1801 the settlement had about 80 residents living in ten dwellings. Edward Wilmot had purchased the manor from the Bentley family. In 1817 it was the property of [[wikipedia:Wilmot baronets|Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart, of Chaddesden and Bentley Hall had become Bentley Hall farmhouse, occupied by Daniel Oakden, yeoman farmer, father of Australian explorer John Jackson Oakden. By 1857, all but a small portion of the whole manor had been transferred to Sir Sacheveral Wilmot.

Hungry Bentley was a township in the ancient parish of Longford in the Appletree Hundred. It became a civil parish in 1866 and was part of Ashbourne Rural District from 1894 until 1974.

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  • Derbyshire Record Office website
  • British History Online (Victoria County Histories) does not appear to cover Derbyshire geographically. A History of the County of Derby: Volume 2, edited by William Page is a part-volume covering the religious houses of the county. No further volumes have been found.
  • GENUKI main page for Derbyshire which provides information on various topics covering the whole of the county, and also a link to a list of parishes. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. This is a list of pre-1834 ancient or ecclesiastical parishes but there are suggestions as to how to find parishes set up since then. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and therefore the reader should check additional sources if possible.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date and from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Derbyshire, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72 which often provides brief notes on the economic basis of the settlement and significant occurences through its history.
  • For a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from the following selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile. Sections of the 1900 map showing parish boundaries only have been reproduced on some (but not all) parish pages here in WeRelate.
  • Map of Derbyshire illustrating urban and rural districts in 1900 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown.
  • Map of Derbyshire urban and rural districts in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. Parish boundaries and settlements within parishes are shown. This is not a repeat of the first map. There were some changes in urban and rural district structure in the 1930s.
  • Ordnance Survey map of Derbyshire for 1967 This is the last in this series and was made while Derbyshire was experimenting with the non-metropolitan district structure adopted in 1974. It is a much cleaner map for reading the names of the civil parishes, but the smaller villages are no longer visible.
These are only three of the series of maps to be found in A Vision of Britain through Time.
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