Hesleden, North Yorkshire

Hesleden is a hamlet in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales in England. It lies within the civil parish of Halton Gill in the Craven district of North Yorkshire. Nether Hesleden is 1.1 miles (1.8 km) west of Litton, and Upper Hesleden is a further 1.4 miles (2.3 km) west, on the road from Halton Gill to Stainforth.

Nether Hesleden
Upper Hesleden

The name is first recorded (as Eseldene) in a charter of Fountains Abbey in about 1206. The name means "hazel valley", from the Old English hæsel and denu.[1]

References
  1. Smith, A.H. (1961). The Place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 6. Cambridge University Press. p. 122.


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