Dent, Cumbria
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| Dent | |
  Dent shown within Cumbria |
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| Population | 675 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| District | South Lakeland |
| Shire county | Cumbria |
| Region | North West |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
| European Parliament | North West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Cumbria | |
Dent is a small village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, nestling in a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is about four miles (6 km) south-east of Sedbergh and about eight miles (13 km) north-east of Kirkby Lonsdale.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Dent lies in a valley called Dentdale but the river is the River Dee, a tributary of the River Lune.
The Dent Brewery is an independent microbrewery in Cowgill, just above Dent.
Dent hosts the Dent Folk Festival annually on the last weekend in June. See Dent Folk Festival website
It was also the birthplace of the famous geologist, Adam Sedgwick.
The Folk song 'The Jolly Miller of Dee' is popular in Dentdale and is thought by some local historians to have been inspired by the ancient watermill at Rash Bridge near the mouth of the River Dee.
Dent railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Railway is about four miles (6 km) above the village at Denthead. Nearby, the railway goes over a splendid viaduct.
David Nash Ford has suggested that the name of the village derives from Dunoting, denoting a sub-Roman kingdom in the northern Pennines ruled by Dunod Fawr.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ King Dunaut Bwr, David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms. Retrieved 12 September 2006.
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