DENT, a chapelry in the parish of SEDBERGH, western division of the wapentake of. STAINCLIFFE and EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles (S. E. by S.) from Sedbergh, containing 1782 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with-£400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Sedbergh. The chapel is dedicated to St. Andrew. There is a place of worship for Independents. A free grammar school was founded for the maintenance of a master and an usher, by charter of James I., who ordained that it should be placed under the direction of fifteen governors, who are a body corporate; it is not known by whom it was endowed, but the income is about £ 28 a year, and there are from twenty to thirty pupils, some of whom are taught the classics.