Denton, Kent
Denton is a village in the civil parish of Denton with Wootton, and the Dover District of Kent, England.
The village is northwest from the channel port of Dover, and 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 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 Hall which dates to the 16th century. The house is where the cleric Richard Barham, under the pen name Thomas Ingoldsby, wrote The Ingoldsby Legends.
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener was created Baron Denton, of Denton in the County of Kent, on 27 July 1914.
