Editing Denton, Greater Manchester (section)

==Landmarks==
[[File:Denton War Memorial.jpg|thumb|Denton War Memorial]]
There is one main war memorial, or cenotaph, in Denton, located in Victoria Park. This memorial commemorates people from Denton and Haughton who served in two world wars. The names on the war memorial were collected from their relatives who wrote to the council with details of their loved ones who served in either war. The war memorial was unveiled on 23 July 1921. Figures from the Denton section of the Tameside council website, state that 3,500 Denton men served in the Great War (1914–1918), of that number, 369 people were killed.

The oldest church in Denton is [[St Lawrence's Church, Denton|St. Lawrence's]]. It is almost 500 years old, originally built in 1531. It is a [[Listed building|listed]] Grade II* building.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Mike Nevell |year=1991 |title=Tameside 1066–1700 |publisher=Tameside Metropolitan Borough and [[Manchester University|University of Manchester Archaeological Unit]] |pages=80, 86, 123–4, 136 |isbn=1-871324-02-5}}</ref> The church is also known locally as "Th'owd Peg" (the old peg) due to the fact, as a [[timber framing|timber-framed]] building, it was constructed with wooden pegs rather than nails. It is more commonly known as the black and white church, because of its appearance. A local myth is also said to have a pirate buried within its grounds because of a grave stone marked with a skull and crossbones at its front door. In a more thorough investigation and article printed by Denton Local History Society (1995), it was found that the gravestone was actually a masonic gravestone belonging to a deceased Soldier named Samuel Bromley from the Royal Artillery.

The [[Victorian era|Victorian]] St Anne's Church, Haughton, is a Grade I listed building, and is built in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] style.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Mike Nevell |year=1993 |title=Tameside 1700–1930 |publisher=Tameside Metropolitan Borough and [[Manchester University|University of Manchester Archaeological Unit]] |page=143 |isbn=1-871324-08-4}}</ref>