DENTON (UPPER), a parish in ESKDALE ward, county of CUMBERLAND, 6 miles (E.N.E.) from Brampton, containing 100 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Carlisle, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Carlisle The parish is bounded on the north and west by the river Irthing.