[3] Hungry Bently was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers[4] and was worth eleven shillings[5] Wulfgeat and Ulfkil have one carucates of land to the geld.

[8] In 1817 it was the property of Sir Robert Wilmot, Baronet of Chaddesden, and Bentley Hall had become Bentley Hall Farmhouse, occupied by Daniel Oakden, yeoman farmer, father of Australian explorer John Jackson Oakden.

[9] By 1857, the whole of the manor had been transferred to Sir Sacheveral Wilmot, although it was noted that a small portion of land was excluded.

[1] The similar village of Wharram Percy in Yorkshire is now thought to have been abandoned for economic reasons.

Inspection of the site shows clear evidence of where the main thoroughfares were and where many of the actual buildings were located.

[2] The most substantial building still standing is Bentley Hall, which aligns with the supposed thoroughfares of the abandoned village and the nearby Roman road of Long Lane.