Hett, Durham
Historical Description
Hett, a village and a township in Croxdale parish, Durham, near the river Wear, 4 miles S of Durham, and 1 mile from Croxdale station on the N.E.R. Acreage, 1279; population, 357. There is a small mission church. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | County Durham | |
Civil parish | Merrington | |
Poor Law union | Durham | |
Ward | Darlington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hett from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hett are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: