Description
Denton, a village and a parish in Huntingdonshire, on Holrne brook, 1 1/2 mile SSW from Stilton, and 3 1/2 miles W by S from Hoime station on the G.N.R. Post town, Peterborough ; money order and telegraph office, Stilton. Acreage of the civil parish, 1031; population, 60 ; of the ecclesiastical, 83. The living is a rectory, with that of Caldecot annexed, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value, £105. The church was partly rebuilt in 1665, has arms of the Cottons, and is an ancient building of stone in the Norman and Early English styles. Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, Bart., the founder of the Cottontail library, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
