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Denton (St. Andrew)

DENTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Grantham, wapentake of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Grantham; containing 626 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the road from Grantham to Melton-Mowbray, comprises about 3000 acres: there are quarries of good building-stone. The canal from Nottingham to Grantham passes within a mile. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £18. 8. 4., and in the gift of the Prebendary of North Grantham in the Cathedral of Salisbury: the tithes have been commuted for £771. 18. 9., and the glebe contains 53½ acres, with a glebe-house. The church is a handsome structure with a lofty and well-proportioned tower, and contains some fine monuments to the ancestors of Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. An almshouse was founded by William Welby, in 1653, for three widowers and three widows; and £70 per annum, arising from allotments under an inclosure act in 1791, are applied to the relief of the poor. On the Denton estate is St. Christopher's spring, the water of which is similar in its properties to that of Bristol Hot Wells. About 1727, a mosaic pavement, and several large pieces of Roman brick, composing part of some ancient foundations, were discovered in Denton fields.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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