A small parish adjacent to Stilton and on the edge of the fens, unites two small villages little more than half a mile apart.  Denton was the birthplace of the noted scholar Sir Robert Cotton but the building has now gone and the 17th Century village church is also a ruin.  At Caldecote is a largely restored 13th Century church, now converted to a private residence, and to the north is the site of another of this area's 'vanished villages' - Washingley.