Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dent

Dent.-- township and vil., Sedbergh par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Dent, 15 miles NW. of Settle and 260 NW. of London, 20,890 ac., pop. 1209; P.O. Market-day, Friday; near the vil. is Dent Crag, or County Stone, where the counties of York, Westmorland, and Lancaster meet.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dent CP/Ch       Sedbergh AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Dent

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