Denton

Other current and historical names

Dentone

Parish/Community: Denton and Caldecote
District/Borough: Huntingdonshire
County: Cambridgeshire
Region: Eastern

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 52°28'34"N 0°18'34"W
Eastings/Northings: 514905, 287830
OS Grid: TL149878
Mapcode Local: GBR GZG.LK9
Mapcode Global: VHGL7.L05Z

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Denton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Denton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Denton, par., Huntingdonshire, 7½ miles SW. of Peterborough, 890 ac., pop. 75.

Denton in the Domesday Book

A village in Normancross hundred, in the county of Huntingdonshire.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godric the sheriff
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Lincoln
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Turstin (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £5 in 1066; £4 in 1086
- Households: 10 villagers; 2 smallholders; 1 priest
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 5 men's ploughs (2 plough lands)
- Meadow: 24 acres
- Woodland: 24 acres
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Denton, Cambridgeshire

Denton is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire

Denton in historic gazetteers

Denton in the Domesday Book