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Dent
locality:-   Dentdale
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   SD705871
1Km square:-   SD7087
10Km square:-   SD78

photograph
BJW22.jpg  And the Sun Inn.
(taken 23.9.2005)  
photograph
BJW23.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Sax9SD68.jpg
Church, symbol for a parish or village, with a parish church.  "dent"
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Mercator 1595 (edn?) 
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandia, Lancastria, Cestria etc, ie Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire etc, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, by Gerard Mercator, Duisberg, Germany, 1595, edition 1613-16.
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MER5WmdA.jpg
"Dent"
circle 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.3
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evidence:-   old map:- Keer 1605
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605 edition perhaps 1676.
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KER8.jpg
"Dent"
dot, circle and tower; village 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.110
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
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SP14SD68.jpg
"Dent"
circle, towers 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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JAN3SD68.jpg
"Dent"
Buildings and tower. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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MD10SD68.jpg
"Dent"
Circle. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Yorkshire North from London, scale about 24 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.
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BD16.jpg
"Dent"
circle, tower/s, upright lowercase text; town 
item:-  private collection : 162
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evidence:-   old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) 
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746.
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"Dent"
Circle. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59
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evidence:-   old map:- Pennant 1777
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Scotland, Hebrides and Part of England, drawn for Thomas Pennant, engraved by J Bayly, published by Benjamin White, London, 1777.
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PEN1Cm.jpg
"Dent"
circle; buildings, village, etc 
item:-  private collection : 66
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, West Riding of Yorkshire, ie West Yorkshire, scale about 21 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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GRA1Wy.jpg
"Dent"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.12
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"DENT"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Dent"
map date 1892 
evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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"Dent"
map date 1890 
evidence:-   old map:- Post Office 1850s-1900s
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Post road maps, General Post Office Circulation Map for England and Wales, for the General Post Office, London, 1850s-1900s.
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POF8Cm.jpg
"Dent"
map date 1873 
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 images courtesy of the British Postal Museum and Hampshire CC Museums
evidence:-   old print:- Clark and Hughes 1890
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Print, Dent, engraving, the street looking west, from a watercolour painting by William Westall, about 1820, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 1890.
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On vol.1 p.15 of The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 
item:-  private collection : 195.4
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evidence:-   old print:- Clark and Hughes 1890
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Print, engraving, Dent, the street looking east, from a watercolour painting by William Westall, about 1820, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 1890.
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CH0202.jpg
On vol.1 p.13 of The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 
item:-  private collection : 195.3
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Dent
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Dent, Yorkshire, now in Cumbria, drawn by W Westall, engraved by E Finden, published 1800s?
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Streetscene. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "Drawn by W. Westall, A.R.A. / Engraved by E. Finden. / DENT, YORKSHIRE."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.506
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photograph
BMG74.jpg  Cottage.
(taken 16.6.2006)  
photograph
BPX05.jpg (taken 9.1.2009)  

photograph
BPX03.jpg  Strait End, 2 Queen Square, built 1708.
(taken 9.1.2009)  
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BPX04.jpg  Coat of arms mounted on the porch, 2 Queen Square; Fawcett Family from Bradford, not the local family of Dent.
(taken 9.1.2009)  
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BSF67.jpg  Knitted gloves from Dent; the pair on the right knitted by George Walton, Deepdale, 1846.
 courtesy of the Wordsworth Trust
notes:-  
 The town and area was famous for its hand knitters, the Terrible Knitters of Dent; terribly fast knitting. Men and women knitted, sometimes while walking in the fields, sometimes sitting and chatting. They used a knitting sheath tucked in the belt to hold one of the needles, these are sometime decoratively carved.
notes:-  
 An advertisement:-
"RUN AWAY, / From Dent in Yorkshire, on Monday the 28th of Aug last. / THOMAS ANSON, a Negro Man, about five Feet six Iinches High, aged 20 Years or upwards, and broad set. Whoever will bring the said Man back to dent, or give any Information that he may be had again, shall receive a handsome Reward from mr. Edmund Sill of Dent, or Mr. David Kenyon Merchant in Liverpool."
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