Dent

Population: 1,000 est.
Information Site: Click Here
Grid Ref: SD7086
Distance: A long way.
Directions: West on the A6069, then North on the A629, North West on the A65, and keep heading East on both the B6479 and B6255 respectively, until the local roads.
Car Parking: Fee : Honesty Box
Facilities: Cafe : Pub : Walks : Toilets
Nearby Interest: Historic : Knitting Lessons (pun)
Church: St Andrew's

Very reminiscent of somewhere like Mousehole in Cornwall, in that most houses are painted stark white, and the village roads twist and wind, and remain cobbled. It nestles amidst the soaring fells of the Yorkshire Dales. The village is now in Cumbria.
Dent's railway station is the highest main-line station in Britain at 1150 feet, and joins the valley road at Lea Yeat.
No the rail station's not in Dent, it's about 4 miles away!
Whatever way you go...There is no easy way into Dent!

A spacious car park on the west of the village (About £2 per two hours) enjoys a magnificent view and makes it easy to explore this fascinating village on foot.
St Andrew's church looks down on a neat churchyard, and views up through the dale. Inside, are Jacobean box-pews in the south aisle and shiny brass memorials to the Sedgwick family are points of interest. (was one a certain A. Sedgwick ? A gold spray-painting graffitti vandal,... leaving his mark on a huge monolith in the village?)

Dent's most famous son, Adam Sedgwick, was one of Englands' greatest geologists, who attended Dent Grammar School, a tiny building adjoining the north side of the churchyard, and his father was Vicar of the 18th century church.

First-floor spinning-galleries were once a feature of houses in Dent, used by women and girls of the households to spin yarn. The village gained a reputation in the 17th and 18th centuries for its thriving cottage industry of knitting, usually of simple garments like stockings, gloves, waistcoats and caps, carried out by all members of a family in order to supplement their meagre incomes. Dent women continued to knit, commercially, until late last century

Links:

Welcome to Dent
Dent Brewery
WikiDent
Sedgwick

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