Dendron is a small village in South Cumbria, around three miles from the town of Barrow-in-Furness. The village was once just a collection of farms, but many of the old farm buildings have now been converted into houses for commuters working in Barrow, Ulverston and Dalton. Cumbria (IPA: ), is a shire county in the extreme North West of England. ... Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Market Street, Dalton-in-Furness Dalton-in-Furness is a small town of approximately 11,000 people outside Barrow-in-Furness. ...

The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Dene, and the name is thought to mean sheltering place for deer - it is only a coincidence that it is the same as the Greek for tree. A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...

The Church and School

The most notable feature of the village is the 17th century St Matthew's Church. It was originally built as a chapel of ease in 1642, and it spent most of its early life as a school for the village children. A chapel of ease is a church building other than the main church of a parish which is more accessible to some parishoners than the main church. ...

In 1652, the famous Quaker George Fox preached with some success at the chapel and noted that "no priest had ever preached in it" before this time. It was not until 1671 that a Minister was properly appointed to serve Dendron. The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... For other persons named George Fox, see George Fox (disambiguation). ...

The renowned artist George Romney, born in nearby Dalton, was educated for a short time at the school but was removed in 1745 by his father because he had failed to make any progress. Portrait of Miss Willoughby, second half of 18th century. ...

In 1833 a new schoolroom was built opposite the churchyard, replacing what had once been a cockpit, and in the same year the vicarage was built. The schoolroom still stands today as a meeting room and Sunday school, but was replaced in the 1870's by another, larger building some distance south of the village in which were educated most of the children from the villages of Dendron, Leece and Gleaston. This building later became a primary school, but in 1994 it ceased to be a school at all when it was amalgamated with two other small rural schools into Low Furness C of E School in Urswick; it is now a house. Beside it stands a War Memorial commemorating parishioners lost in the First World War. Cockfight in Otavalo, Ecuador A cockpit was a pit used for cockfighting, where owners would pit fighting birds against each other for the purpose of gambling. ... The Vicarage is the title usually given to the building inhabited, or formerly inhabited, by the Vicar of a parish. ... Sunday school, Indians and whites. ... Leece is a small Hamlet near the town of Barrow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria, England. ... Gleaston is a village with a population of around 400 in the Furness area of South Cumbria, situated between the towns of Barrow-in-Furness, Dalton-in-Furness and Ulverston. ... The villages of Great Urswick and Little Urswick, together called Urswick, are located in the Furness peninsula, part of the administrative county of Cumbria in the United Kingdom. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Dendron did not become a parish church until 1892. A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...