About Bentilee
Bentilee is a large (1.5miles x 0.5 miles), red-brick council housing estate in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. It has about 4000 households, a mixture of two/three bedroom semi's, and blocks of four to eight flats. Highrise housing is out because the area is riddled with old mine workings (or so local legend as it). All the properties have their own garden making it variously a quite picturesque estate or a slum (depending on the concentration of gardening fanatics in the street).
The estate is roughly an elongated oval in shape, with three bus routes running through its length (generally between the towns of Hanley and Longton). It has three churches, five schools, a shopping precinct and a smattering of other shops, WorkingMen's Clubs and pubs, a community hall, a Community Education Centre (including the voluntary group, the Bentilee Volunteers) and nearby is the Park Hall Country Park (reclaimed industrial land opened in 1977 by Prince Charles, I believe).
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