BENTLEY (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
TENDRING, county of ESSEX, 8 miles (E.S.E.) from
Colchester, containing 794 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Colchester,
and diocese of London, rated in the king's books
at £7, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop
of London. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The parochial school is endowed with about £15 per
annum.