Dent is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It lies in Dentdale, a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, 4 miles south east of Sedbergh and 8 miles north east of Kirkby Lonsdale. At the 2011 census, Dent and Middleton had a total …Dent is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It lies in Dentdale, a narrow valley on the western slopes of the Pennines within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, 4 miles south east of Sedbergh and 8 miles north east of Kirkby Lonsdale. At the 2011 census, Dent and Middleton had a total population of 785.