Denton, Lincolnshire
Historical Description
Denton, a village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the Salter's Roman road, near the Grantham Canal and the boundary with Leicestershire, 4 miles SW of Grantham station on the G.N.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Grantham. The parish comprises 2644 acres; population, 546. Denton House, the seat of the Welby-Gregory family, is an elegant mansion in the Tudor style, erected in 1879-83. It occupies a commanding site amid finely wooded grounds. There are a mineral spring and three fish ponds. A Roman tessellated pavement 30 feet square was found in 1727. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln; net yearly value, £543 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is a building of stone chiefly of the Perpendicular period, has a fine tower, and contains monuments of the Welbys and the Williamses. It was thoroughly restored in 1888. There is an endowed almshouse for six poor people.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lincolnshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Denton St. Andrew | |
Poor Law union | Grantham | |
Wapentake | Loveden |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Denton 1558-1837, Lincolnshire is available to browse online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Archives, have the following parish records online for Denton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1538-1898 | 1754-1769 | 1558-1911 | 1558-1885 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Denton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Denton (St. Andrew))
Maps
Online maps of Denton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lincolnshire papers online: