UPPER DENTON, Cumberland - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"UPPER DENTON, a parish in the ward of Eskdale, in the county of Cumberland, 6 miles N.E. of Brampton. The village is very small, and wholly agricultural, the greater part of the land being in pasture. The living is a curacy* in the diocese of Carlisle, value £46, in the patronage of the Earl of Carlisle."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]