Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DENT

DENT, a small town, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district, in Sedbergh district, W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the rivulet Dent, near the boundary with Westmoreland, 7½ miles SE of Sedbergh r. station, and 8½ N of Ingleton; has a post office under Kendal, a church, four dissenting chapels, a workhouse, and a grammar-school; and is a polling-place. Markets are held on Friday; and fairs on the Friday after 13 Feb., 26 Sept., and 28 Oct. The chapelry includes also the hamlets of Deepdale-Kirthwaite, South-Lord-Land, North-Lord-Land, and Lenacre. Acres, 23, 200. Real property, £8, 554. Pop., 1, 427. Houses, 312. The property is much subdivided. Most of the land is commonage or pasture. Dent Crag marks the meeting-point of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £170.* Patrons, the Landowners. The church is ancient, and was recently in disrepair. There is a chapel of ease at Cowgill. The grammar school has £36 from endowment; and other charities £47. The sub-district is conterminate with the chapelry.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a small town, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Dent CP/Ch       Sedbergh RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Dent

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