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

Other OS name in the Parish of Gosforth

Etymology

Hill ( 6 ″ ) was named after the Rev . Christopher Denton who in 1696 married the heiress of Gosforth Gate (CW iii, 231) .