Dent, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Dent is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1742 from a chapelry in Sedbergh Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: South Lord Land, North Lord Land, Lenacre, Kirthwaite, Deepdale Kirthwaite, Deepdale, Deep-dale, and Cowgill.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Dent
- Parish registers: 1611
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1674
Cowgill
- Parish registers: 1839
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1840
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Middleton, Westmorland
- Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland
- Leck, Lancashire
- Hawes (North Riding)
- Aysgarth (North Riding)
- Barbon, Westmorland
- Ingleton Fell
- Garsdale
- Sedbergh
- Thornton in Lonsdale
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DENT, a small town, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district, in Sedbergh district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The town stands on the rivulet Dent, near the boundary with Westmoreland, 7½ miles SE of Sedbergh r. station, and 8½ N of Ingleton; has a post office under Kendal, a church, four dissenting chapels, a workhouse, and a grammar-school; and is a polling-place. Markets are held on Friday; and fairs on the Friday after 13 Feb., 26 Sept., and 28 Oct.
The chapelry includes also the hamlets of Deepdale-Kirthwaite, South-Lord-Land, North-Lord-Land, and Lenacre. Acres, 23, 200. Real property, £8, 554. Pop., 1, 427. Houses, 312. The property is much subdivided. Most of the land is commonage or pasture. Dent Crag marks the meeting-point of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Lancashire.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £170.* Patrons, the Landowners. The church is ancient, and was recently in disrepair. There is a chapel of ease at Cowgill.
The grammar school has £36 from endowment; and other charities £47.
The sub-district is conterminate with the chapelry.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Dent
Cowgill
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Sedbergh
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Lonsdale
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Clapham
- Poor Law Union: Sedbergh
- Hundred: Staincliff and Ewcross
- Province: York