BENTLEY (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of
TENDRING, county of ESSEX, 5 miles (S. by E.) from
Manningtree, containing 402 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £13, and
in the patronage of Robert Foot, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for-
Wesleyan Methodists.