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Dent is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It lies in Dentdale, a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is about south east of Sedbergh and about north east of Kirkby Lonsdale. ==History== Dent was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Both place name and dialect evidence indicate that this area was settled by the Norse in the 10th century.〔Hedevind, Bertil (1967) ''The Dialect of Dentdale in the West Riding of Yorkshire'' (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis)〕 Geoffrey Hodgson, in 2008, argued that this invasion accounts for the high frequency of the Hodgson surname in the area.〔Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2008) ''Hodgson Saga'', second edition (Standon, Hertfordshire: Martlet Books).〕 Dent was the birthplace of the geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1785. Dentdale was one of the last Yorkshire Dales to be enclosed, Dent's Enclosure Award being made in 1859.〔Roads and Trackways of the Yorkshire Dales, Geoffrey N. Wright, ISBN 0-86190-410-9〕 Whilst fishing on the Dee at Dentdale in the 1840s, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong saw a waterwheel in action, supplying power to a marble quarry. It struck Armstrong that much of the available power was being wasted and it inspired him to design a successful hydraulic engine which began the accumulation of his wealth and industrial empire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dent, Cumbria」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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