| Found in Domesday 1086AD | |
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| Names found: | Dentone(Huntingdonshire) |
| Dentone(Lincolnshire) | |
| Dentone(Yorkshire) | |
| Dentuna(Norfolk) | |
| Dodintone(Northamptonshire) | |
| Current translation for Denton | ||||||||||||||
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| den derived from daen/den-bera - a valley / a forest swine pasture, most were settled after Domesday | |||||||||||||
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| ending in ton derived from tun - a settlement on a hill | |||||||||||||
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| Place name translation provided by saxonhistory.co.uk | ||||||||||||||