Main Street, Dent © Richard Sutcliffe cc-by-sa/2.0

1976

SD7086 : Main Street, Dent

Main Street, Dent

Looking past the George & Dragon on the left.

Geographical Context: Village, Rural settlement Business, Retail, Services Roads, Road transport Primary Subject: Village

This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · George Dragon [21] Title Clusters: · Main Street, Dent [10] ·

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Grid Square: SD7086, 120 images (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer: Richard Sutcliffe (more nearby)
Date Taken: September 1976 (more nearby)
Submitted: Wednesday, 28 March, 2018
Subject Location: OSGB36: SD 7051 8696 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:16.6455N 2:27.2637W
Camera Location: OSGB36: SD 7050 8699
View Direction: South-southeast (about 157 degrees)

Image Type (about): geograph

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SD7086 : Waterfall above Dent

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

Posted by Stan on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 (0 comments)