Hetton le Hole Durham Family History Guide

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Hetton le Hole or Hetton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Durham, created in 1838 from a chapelry in Houghton le Spring Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Eppleton.

Alternative names: Hetton

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1832
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1832

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Table of Contents

Adjacent Parishes

Hetton le Hole Parish Registers

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

Hetton le Hole Bishops Transcripts 1832-1835

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HETTON-LE-HOLE, a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Houghton-le-Spring district, Durham. The village stands 6 miles NE of Durham; is a polling place for the N division of the county; and has a post-office under Fence Houses. The township. comprises 1,739 acres. Real property, £30,478; of which £24,700 are in mines, and £652 in railways. Pop. in 1851, 5,664; in 1861, 6,419. Houses, 1,318. Hetton Hall belongs to the Hon. Mrs. R. Barrington, and is occupied by N. Wood, Esq.

Hetton collieries, belonging to the Hetton coal company, were opened in 1822; lie beneath strata of magnesian limestone 38 yards thick; and, though undertaken in defiance of sinister prognostication by some geologists, have proved a very great success. Nearly 200 additional colliers’ cottages were built in 1864-5.

The Hetton railway, consisting of a series of inclined planes, and worked partly by stationary engines, partly by locomotive ones, was constructed for conveying coals hence to the river Wear, and was one of the earliest railways executed on plans superior to the old tram ways. It is now connected with the Hartlepool and Sunderland line at Shincliffe; and has, in Hetton township, a terminal station of the name of Hetton.

The chapelry is conterminate with the township; was constituted in 1832, and made ecclesiastically parochial in 1847; and is, as to civil matters, in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Value, £280. Patron, the Bishop of Durham. The church was built in 1832, and has a bell turret. There are chapels for Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and New Connexion Methodists, a national school, a colliery school, and three reading rooms and libraries.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

County: Durham
Civil Registration District: Houghton le Spring
Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Durham (Episcopal Consistory)
Diocese: Durham
Rural Deanery: Easington
Poor Law Union: Houghton le Spring
Hundred: Easington Ward
Province: York