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Denton Holme is an inner city district in 
The main street, Denton Street, has many small shops along it and other businesses including a 
At Shaddon Mill, on the boundary of Denton Holme and Caldewgate, stands a very tall 
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...
, Cumbria
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, England. The population of this ward was 6,383 taken at the 2011 census.
Denton Holme is usually regarded as a "village within the city" and is situated to the immediate south west of the city centre on the western bank of the River Caldew
The River Caldew is a river running through Cumbria in England.
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. A man-made stream or mill race known as the Little Caldew flows through and underneath the area.
Today it is a mostly residential area but in the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century along with the neighbouring districts of Caldewgate and Wapping it was Carlisle's main industrial district with many textile mills
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, engineering works and other factories such as car seat manufacturers and confectioners. Today, very few factories remain although the last mill, Ferguson Brothers, owned by Coats Viyella
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, at Holme Head, only closed in the 1990s.
The majority of the housing is red-brick terraced
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, a few of which are listed building
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s, such as Bridge Terrace built in the 1850s. Many of the side streets are still cobbled rather than tarmacked, although some new housing has been built in recent years and some of the former factories have been converted into flats.
The main street, Denton Street, has many small shops along it and other businesses including a bingo
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Arts and entertainment Gaming
* Bingo, a game using a printed card of numbers
** Bingo (British version), a game using a printed card of 15 numbers on three lines; most commonly played in the UK and Ireland
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hall and a branch of the Cumberland Building Society. There was at one time a cinema
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Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
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in the suburb, located in what is now the Bingo hall.
There is a primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
at Holme Head, built by and named after Robert Ferguson, and the former Morley Street School has been converted into a public library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants.
There are ...
.
There are four churches in Denton Holme including the Church of England Parish Church, St James, Carlisle Christian Fellowship and The Lighthouse Baptist Church.
At Shaddon Mill, on the boundary of Denton Holme and Caldewgate, stands a very tall chimney
A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typic ...
which was at one time the tallest in the UK. This structure, which is known as "Dixons Chimney", is now slightly short of its original height and has recently been restored and is a well-known local landmark. It is named after its first owner, Peter Dixon, who built the mill in 1835–6. The architect was Richard Tattersall.
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Areas of Carlisle, Cumbria {{Cumbria-geo-stub