Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DINTING

DINTING, a township in Glossop parish, Derby; on a rivulet of its own name, a tributary of the Etherow, and on the Manchester and Sheffield canal and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, adjacent to Cheshire, 1¼ mile W of Glossop. It has a station on the railway. Pop., 730. Houses, 145. A three-arched viaduct of the railway here consists of stone and timber, and is 506 feet long and 136 feet high.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Glossop AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Dinting Vale

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