Benchley is a small unincorporated community in Brazos and Robertson counties, Texas, United States, with a population of approximately 100.

The community is named after the first freight conductor of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, Henry Benchley.

[2] Many of Benchley's residents left because of the runaway scrape, which occurred between September 1835 and April 1836.

[3] Around the 1840s, a band of criminals posed as preachers, and while one gave a sermon, the others attempted to make off with several horses.

[3] Benchley lies within the boundaries of the Bryan ISD, and Brazos County Pct.