Fenny Bentley...it is watered by the little Bentley Brook, which found its way into Izaak Walton's 'The Compleat Angler', thanks to its trout and grayling.

The old Hall is picturesque with gables and a square tower making it look like half a house and half a castle. The tower is part of the old manor of John Beresford who fought at Agincourt with a soldier now lying in the church across the way.

This great soldier who is said to have marshalled his 16 sons for the wars of Henry VI, has one of the most extraordinary monuments in Derbyshire - an alabaster tomb on which he lies with his wife Agnes, both in shrounds tied up above the head, at the ankles,and below the feet, so that no part of them can be seen. Round the edge of the tombs are helmets, shields, breast-plates, swords, banners and drums, the things these Beresford's loved. On one side and at one end are engraved the tiny shrouded figures of 21 children, five of them girls.

In a window of the chapel, with a great heraldic display, are Thomas and Agnes with their son James, who became Canon of Lichfield.