DENTON, a parish in Dover district, Kent; under Barham Down, 3½ miles SW of Shepherd's Well r. station, and 7½ NW by W of Dover. Post town, Wooton, under Canterbury. Acres, 1, 062. Real property, £1, 221. Pop., 183. Houses, 33. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Eardes; and passed to the Peytons, the Boyses, the Whorwoods, the Markhams, and others. Denton Court, a Tudor mansion, was the seat of Sir E. Brydges, and a visiting residence of the poet Gray. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £169.* Patron, the Rev. G.La Motte. The church is early English.

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