Dent, Cumbria
| Dent | |
|---|---|
| Population | 675 |
| OS grid reference | SD |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Cumbria |
| Fire | Cumbria |
| Ambulance | North West |
Dent is a small village and civil parish in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 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.
Dent lies in a valley called Dentdale but the river is the River Dee, a tributary of the River Lune. Dentdale was one of the last Yorkshire Dales to be enclosed, Dents Enclosure Award being made in 1859.[1]
The Dent Brewery is an independent microbrewery in Cowgill, just above Dent.
Dent was the original site of the Dent Folk Festival and is now the site of the Dent Music and Beer Festival at the end of June(see website: [1]) The first event being held in 2009 and was hailed as a great success.
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.[2]
Notes
- ^ Roads and Trackways of the Yorkshire Dales, Geoffrey N. Wright, ISBN 0 86190 4109
- ^ King Dunaut Bwr, David Nash Ford's Early British Kingdoms. Retrieved 12 September 2006.
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