Denton, Oxfordshire

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Denton is a hamlet in the parish of Cuddesdon and Denton in Oxfordshire. Its name, found elsewhere across England, comes from the Saxon den-tun meaning 'valley farmstead'. Indeed, Denton is situated in a fold of the landscape, between the two hills on which Cuddesdon and Garsington sit.

Denton is an ancient manor and until the twentieth century formed a separate civil parish of its own, but was merged with neighbouring Cuddesdon.