DENTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Grantham district, Lincoln. The village stands on the Salter's Roman road, near the Grantham canal and the boundary with Leicester, 3¾ miles S of Sedgebrook r. station, and 4 SW of Grantham; and has a post office under Grantham. The parish comprises 2, 600 acres. Real property, £4, 553. Pop., 637. Houses, 125. Denton Hall, the seat of the Welby family, is an elegant mansion, mainly rebuilt in 1817; and occupies a commanding site, amid finely wooded grounds. There are a mineral spring and three fish-ponds. A Roman tesselated pavement, 30 feet square, was found in 1727. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £756.* Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church has a fine tower; and contains monuments of the Welbys and the Williamses. An almshouse has £19 from endowment; and other charities £82.—The sub-district contains fifteen parishes and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 36, 512. Pop., 7, 225. Houses, 1, 467.

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