Dent is a village in Cumbria. It lies in Dentdale, a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is about 4 miles south east of Sedbergh and about 8 miles north east of Kirkby Lonsdale.
It is the home to Dent microbrewery and the birthplace of Adam Sedgewick, the Geologist.
These limestone river-bed slabs were once used by the clothmakers of Dent to cleanse their wool and knitted products. Robert Southey wrote about the 'terrible knitters of Dent', in the sense of how fearfully fast they knitted! See http://www.daelnet.co.uk/features/knitting/history4.htm