Hetton is a small Dales village in the

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of Hetton-cum-Bordley, in the county of

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, England, situated north of

Skipton Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the East Division of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the River Aire and the Leeds ...

by the B6265 road. It is the largest settlement in the parish of Hetton-cum-Bordley. The population of the former civil parish of Hetton taken at the 2011 Census was 155.

History

Nearby places include Cracoe, Flasby, Rylstone, Threapland and Winterburn. Hetton was mentioned in the

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as belonging to ''Stuartcol'' (or ''Swartkoll'') in 1066, but given to Roger de Poitou by 1086. The name means the farm on the heathland (from

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''hæth tun''). Hetton was historically part of the

wapentake A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and in Cumberland County in the British Colony of ...

of Staincliffe East, and within the

Skipton Rural District Skipton was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after Skipton, which constituted an urban district on its southern border. The district was expanded in 1937 by taking in the parishes of Steeton wit ...

. For administrative purpose, it formed a

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with Bordley in the ancient parish of

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in the

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. In the late 19th century it became a separate township, and it became a separate civil parish in 1866. It was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2012 and amalgamated with the parish of Bordley to form the new civil parish of "Hetton-cum-Bordley". From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Craven, it is now administered by the unitary

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. The area is represented at

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as part of the Skipton and Ripon Constituency. The village has a Methodist church, opened in 1859, but which closed in 2021 as a house of worship. Hetton is also home to ''The Angel Inn'', which has been awarded a

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, and is also the only restaurant in North Yorkshire to have been awarded five AA rosettes for its food. The

Dales High Way A Dales High Way is a long-distance footpath in northern England. It is long and runs from Saltaire in West Yorkshire to Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, roughly parallel to the line of the Settle and Carlisle Railway. Route The Dales High W ...

, a long-distance path, runs through the village.

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* {{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Former civil parishes in North Yorkshire Craven District

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