DENTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
OTLEY which is in the lower division of the wapentake
of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles
(N.W. by W.) from Otley, containing 192 inhabitants.
The living is a donative, in the patronage of Sir C. C. Ibbetson,
Bart. Edward Fairfax, the translator of Tasso,
and his descendants, Ferdinando and Thomas, successively
Lords Fairfax, and commanders in the parliamentary
army, were born here; the last, in addition to his
high military fame, was noted for his attachment to antiquarian
pursuits, and was once owner of the Dodsworth
MSS. now preserved in the Bodleian library at
Oxford.