English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Denton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Farndon

Historical Forms

  • Denton 1319,1329 AddCh
  • campus de Denton' 1216–30,14,1321 AddCh
  • Dentonfeld 1307–27 AddCh
  • Dentonefeld 14 AddCh

Etymology

Denton (lost), Denton 1319, 1329AddCh 50415–50509, campus de Denton '1216–30, 14, 1321AddCh 50415–50509, Dentonfeld 1307–27AddCh 50415–50509, Dentonefeld 14AddCh 50415–50509, 'farm or enclosure in a valley', from denu and tūn , with feld . This lost place is described in AddCh 50438–9 in which Blakegre (ue )feld , le Wythynnes , le Stokkyfeld , Elenesgorstes and Yldremor , infra , are in diversis locis de Denton .