Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DENTON

DENTON, a parish in Hardingstone district, Northamptonshire; 2½ miles SSE of Billing-Road r. station, and 6 ESE of Northampton. Post town, Little Houghton, under Northampton. Acres, 1, 970. Real property, £1, 509. Pop., 578. Houses, 132. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Yardley-Hastings, in the diocese of Peterborough. The church is good; and there are charities £17.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Denton Parish       Hardingstone Poor Law Union/Registration District       Northamptonshire Ancient County
Place: Denton

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