Denton is a village in the civil parish of
Denton with Wootton, and the
Dover District
Dover is a local government district in Kent, England. The port town of Dover is its administrative centre. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the boroughs of Deal, Dover, and Sandwich along with Dover Rural District and most of Eastry ...
of
Kent
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, England.
The village is northwest from the channel port of
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
, and east-southeast from the
county town
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of
Maidstone. The
A260 Barham to
Folkestone
Folkestone ( ) is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. It was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20t ...
road runs through the village, and the major
A2 London to Dover road is to the east. Wootton, the other parish village, is 1 mile to the southeast.
To the southwest of the village is the Grade II*
listed Jacobean timber framed Tappington (or Tappington-Everard) Hall which dates to the 16th century. The house is where the cleric
Richard Barham (1788–1845), under the pen name Thomas Ingoldsby, wrote ''
The Ingoldsby Legends''.
[ Cox, J. Charles (1903), ''The Little Guides: Kent'', p. 141. Revised by Ronald F. Jessop. Methuen & Co. Ltd.]
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener was created ''
Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent'', on 27 July 1914.
References
External links
Villages in Kent
Dover District
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