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Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox UK place Denton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Denton with Wootton, in the Dover district of Kent, England. In 1961 the parish had a population of 137.[1] On 1 April 1961 the parish was abolished and merged with Wootton to form "Denton with Wootton".[2]

The village is Шаблон:Convert northwest from the channel port of Dover, and Шаблон:Convert east-southeast from the county town of Maidstone. The A260 Barham to Folkestone road runs through the village, and the major A2 London to Dover road is Шаблон:Convert 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.[3][4]

Field Marshal Lord Kitchener was created Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent, on 27 July 1914.[5]

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