HETTON-le-HOLE, a township in the parish of
HouGHTON le SPRING, northern division of EASINGTON
ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 6 miles (N. E.
byE.) from Durham, containing 919 inhabitants. Here
are places of worship for Baptists, Kilhamites, and
Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. Extensive mines
of coal are worked in the vicinity. In a field on the
right-hand side of the road from Eppleton to Hetton
is a tumulus, consisting of a collection of small stones,
at the top of which  is a small oblong cavity, called
the Fairies Cradle.