DENTON,
a parish in the hundred of NORMAN-CROSS, county of HUNTINGDON,
1¾ miles (S.W.) from Stilton, containing 90 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Huntingon, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £5.13.6½, and in the patronage
of the Executors of the late Captain Wells, R.N. The church, dedicated to
All Saints, was partly rebuilt in 1665 by Sir John Cotton. Sir Robert Bruce
Cotton, Bart., a celebrated antiquary, who manuscripts, called the Cottonian
Manuscripts, are now in the British Museum, was born here in 1570.
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