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Photo of Dent, a village in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, north west England.

© David Smith / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Dent

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Dent is a surprise: whitewashed cottages along narrow cobbled streets, tucked deep in remote Dentdale. The geologist Adam Sedgwick, one of the founders of the modern science, was born here in 1785, and a rough block of pink Shap granite in the main street stands as his memorial. Two good pubs and a small brewery keep it lively. Confusingly, Dent station — the highest mainline station in England — is a steep few miles east of the village. Sedbergh lies over the hill.

More places to visit near Dent

Photo of the Yorkshire Dales, a National Park in England.Iconic

Yorkshire Dales

You’re inside itNational Park near Gayle

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

Photo along the Pennine Bridleway, a 205-mile National Trail running from Middleton Top or Hartington to A683 at Cote Moor, England.Highlight

Pennine Bridleway

National Trail

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

6.4 km E · spans 6 counties

Photo of Sedgwick Geological Trail, a landmark near Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Sedgwick Geological Trail

Landmark near Sedbergh

A short trail near Dent following the Dent Fault, laid out for the pioneering geologist Adam Sedgwick.

7 km NW

Photo of Sedbergh, a village in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, north west England.

Sedbergh

Village

England's official book town at the foot of the rounded Howgill Fells, its main street lined with bookshops.

7 km NW · Cumbria

Photo of The Black Bull, a gastropub near Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

The Black Bull

Gastropub · With rooms near Sedbergh

Restored coaching inn with rooms in the Dales book town of Sedbergh.

7.2 km NW

Photo of Ribblehead Viaduct, a landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Ribblehead Viaduct

Landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Twenty-four arches of the Settle–Carlisle line striding across Batty Moss, built in the 1870s from navvy shanty towns whose dead fill Chapel-le-Dale's churchyard.

9 km SE