Hetton is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Craven in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Craven

The Meaning of the Name

The name Hetton is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hetton.

Listed Buildings Near Hetton

Historic England records 19 listed buildings within about a mile of Hetton. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

Kennels - 0.16 km
Rylstone House - 0.29 km
Yew Tree Farmhouse - 0.31 km
Gateway and Front Boundary Wall to Rylstone House - 0.31 km
Coach House - 0.32 km
Lodge Cottage With Attached Barn and Stables - 0.35 km
Guide Stone at Junction With Raikes Lane - 0.37 km
Rylstone Lodge - 0.37 km
Lodge Farmhouse and Attached Barn to Right - 0.39 km
Manor Cottage - 0.45 km
Norton View Farm and Thackray Barn - 0.53 km
Meadow Croft - 0.53 km
Fell View - 0.54 km
Benson Cottage - 0.56 km
Hetton House - 0.59 km
Rock Farmhouse - 0.61 km
Ivy House - 0.62 km
Dumpty Cottage - 0.67 km
Church of St Peter - 0.68 km

Scheduled Monuments Near Hetton

Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hetton:

Calton Gill round cairn - 1.24 km

Hetton Today

Today Hetton lies within the administrative area of Hetton-cum-Bordley, and the settlement recorded a population of 155 at the 2011 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Hetton on Wikipedia .