Nether Denton is a scattered settlement and

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in rural

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, England, situated about north-east of

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, by the A69 road. The population of the parish taken at the 2011 census was 415. Nether Denton is a couple of miles south-west of the village of Upper Denton. The parish contains the village of Low Row. St Cuthbert's Church at Nether Denton is built at the site of a Roman fort, around south of Hadrian's Wall on the

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road. The present building dates from 1868 to 1870, but there has been a church on the site since the 12th century. Denton Hall, now a farmhouse, comprises a 14th-century

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, gabled and reduced in height, adjoining a house of 1829. The walls of the tower are 2m thick. Denton Hall at Pastscape
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Cumbria County History Trust: Nether Denton
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