Dentdale

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The valley of the River Dee in Cumbria, England.

    "As a watery sun caught a patch of green fields amid a cleft in the hills, far away deep to our left, he made his second remark since we left Hellifield. "Dentdale, best o' lot"—that was his opinion."

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"As a watery sun caught a patch of green fields amid a cleft in the hills, far away deep to our left, he made his second remark since we left Hellifield. "Dentdale, best o' lot"—that was his opinion."

Etymology

From the village of Dent + dale.

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