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Hetton-le-Hole is a town and civil parish in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It is in the historic county of Durham. A182 runs through the town, between Houghton-le-Spring and Easington Lane (the latter borders the County Durham District ), off the A690 and close to the A1 (M) .
- The Hettons
- Hetton Hall and Hetton House
- Hetton Colliery
- Hetton Colliery Railway
- Growth of Hetton
- Hetton Today
- Bob Paisley Memorial
- Hetton Lyons Park
- Eppleton
- Easington Lane and Moorsley
In the 1820s, Hetton, now an outlying part of the City of Sunderland, became the most famous colliery town in County Durham and played an important part in the mining history of the North East. It was the place where coal mining in East Durham(which then included Sunderland) began. It was also home to the famed Hetton Railway, the first railway tha...
The original manorial residence of Hetton was at Hetton-le-Hill but there seems to have been a new manor house at Hetton-le-Hole by the time of the Spearmans. It was situated in its own parkland alongside the Hetton Burn on the west side of Hetton. In 1837 the hall was described as an “excellent deserted manor house”. Around 1844 after the famed Ry...
Coal had been mined in County Durham for hundreds of years but there had long been a debate over whether there was suitable coal or indeed any coal at all beneath the magnesian limestone hills that dominate the eastern part of the county inland from Hartlepool to South Shields. Most geologists were convinced there was not. Even if coal was found th...
The Hetton Colliery Company seems to have been very confident of finding coal. In 1819 before the coal was even found they set in motion the development of the Hetton Colliery Railway and employed the then barely known engineer, George Stephenson, who also laid out the colliery, to design it. This eight mile long railway was the first in the world ...
When Hetton Lyon’s Colliery opened in the 1820s around 1,500 men were employed at the new colliery which would bring about the rapid growth of Hetton from an obscure agricultural settlement into a busy mining town. Initially, more than 200 houses were built for the workers of the newly opened mine. Most of these were pit cottages much smaller and m...
Today Hetton-le-Hole is sometimes described as a village which probably reflects the community feel of the place but it is in reality a small town. Considering that it really only started to grow from the 1820s it will come as no surprise to discover that there are no really early buildings but sadly some some of the buildings associated with the m...
Although the parkland of Hetton Hall, recalled in the name of Park View has gone, there is a small park called ‘Hetton Mini Park’ on the north side of Park View in which we find a memorial to the Liverpool Football Club manager and former footballer, Bob Paisley (1919-1996), who was born and raised in Hetton-le-Hole. Paisley played for Eppleton Jun...
Hetton Mini Park is not the only park in Hetton. Over on the eastern side of the town is the much larger Hetton Lyons Country Park with its lovely lake backed by extensive woodland forming a beautiful and unexpected feature of Hetton’s landscape. Hetton Lyons Country Park lies between the sites of the Hetton Lyons Colliery to its south where there ...
Hetton Lyons Colliery (1822-1950) was the first colliery to develop in the immediate vicinity of Hetton-le-Hole but as we have seen others soon followed. Right up close to Hetton Lyons to the north was Eppleton Colliery (1833-1986) a site which is now a focus for limestone quarrying on the eastern edge of Hetton-le-Hole. At the colliery pit wheel e...
The village of Easington Lane is a south eastward extension of Hetton on the road between Pittington and Easington, from which it takes its name. It came into being in the nineteenth century following the development of nearby Elemore Colliery by the Hetton Coal Company. The colliery was started by the Hetton Coal Company in 1827 and operated until...
Hetton-le-Hole is a town and civil parish in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It is in the historic county of Durham. A182 runs through the town, between Houghton-le-Spring and Easington Lane, off the A690 and close to the A1. Map. Directions.
History of Hetton-le-Hole. Though a superficial glance at the Hetton of today may lead one to think it is a place with little or no history, this is not the case. The history of the area can,...
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Hetton-le-Hole is a town and civil parish in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It is in the historic county of Durham. A182 runs through the town, between Houghton-le-Spring and Easington Lane, off the A690 and close to the A1 (M).
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