Description
Bentley, a township in Wolverhampton parish, Staffordshire, 1 mile N of Darlaston, and 2 miles W by N of Walsall. It has a station on the M. R. Post town, Walsall. Acreage, 1448; population, 355. The inhabitants are employed largely in collieries and ironworks. There is a quarry of columnar basalt stone. The Earl of Lichfield is lord of the manor. Bentley Hall belonged to Colonel Lane, who sheltered Charles II. after the battle of Worcester.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
