- Upper Denton
Upper Denton is a village in the north of
Cumbria ,England . [Philip's Motorist's Atlas: 2004, Octopus Publishing Group, London, England] The village is situated to the south of the course ofHadrian's Wall . Nearby villages includeGilsland ,Greenhead andLanercost .History
Nearby
Hadrian's Wall , the most important Roman monument inGreat Britain is located approximately one kilometre north of Upper Denton. [ [http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.13795 Official English Heritage website] ] The wall, was not a major battlement to prevent invasion, but a barrier to inderdite small bands of immigrants from the north, who, according to the Romans, were a threat to the peacefulness of settledBrittania . [Stephen Johnson (2004) "Hadrian's Wall", Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 128 pps, ISBN 0713488409] TheRiver Irthing demarcated a key transition in the geometry of Hadrian's Wall according to C. Michael Hogan. West of the Irthing "turf and timber prevailed, while cut stones with limed mortar interstices were used to the east" of the river. [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18177 C.Michael Hogan (2007) "Hadrian's Wall", ed. Andy Burnham, The Megalithic Portal] ]References
External links
* [http://www.visitcumbria.com/churches/upperdenton.htm Pictures, and brief details, of the church]
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CUL/UpperDenton/ GENUKI page]
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