Hetton
| Hetton | |
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 Hetton | |
  Hetton | |
| Hetton shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 155 |
| OS grid reference | SD962584 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Skipton |
| Postcode district | BD23 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Hetton is a small Dales village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, situated 5.75 miles north by B 6265 of Skipton. It is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Hetton-cum-Bordley. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 155.[1]
Nearby places include Rylstone, Cracoe, Flasby, Threapland and Winterburn. It also houses Hetton Amateur Swimming Club, who are based at the Hetton Sports Centre.
Hetton was historically part of the township of Hetton with Bordley in the ancient parish of Burnsall in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[2] In the late 19th century it became a separate township,[3] and it became a separate civil parish in 1866.[4] It was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. The civil parish was abolished in 2012 and amalgamated with the parish of Bordley to form the new civil parish of Hetton-cum-Bordley.[5]
References
- ↑ "Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ↑ "Parish of Burnsall". Genuki. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ↑ "John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887) quoted in Vision of Britain website". Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ↑ "Hetton CP/Tn". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ↑ "The Craven District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2011". Retrieved 27 August 2014.
External links
Media related to Hetton at Wikimedia Commons
- The ancient parish of Burnsall: historical and genealogical information at GENUKI (Hetton was in this parish).