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DINTING, a township in Glossop parish, Derby; on a rivulet of its own name, a tributary of the Etherow, and on the Manchester and Sheffield canal and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, adjacent to Cheshire, 1¼ mile W of Glossop. It has a station on the railway. Pop., 730. Houses, 145. A three-arched viaduct of the railway here consists of stone and timber, and is 506 feet long and 136 feet high.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Glossop Parish Derbyshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Dinting Vale |
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