DENTON (EAST), a township in the parish of NEWBURN,
western division of CASTLE ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, 3 miles (W.N.W.) from Newcastle
upon Tyne, containing 548 inhabitants. The remains of
a chapel and cemetery were discovered here about fifty
years ago. At Denton Burn are vestiges of the old
Roman wall, faced with stone, in the vicinity of which
many remarkable coins and medals have been found.