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Hetton-Le-Hole

Hetton-le-Hole is a town in the civil parish of Hetton, in Sunderland, England.

Hetton-Le-Hole
Hetton-Le-Hole · Matti Blume
The place

Hetton-le-Hole is a town in the civil parish of Hetton, in Sunderland, England. Until 1974 it was in County Durham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hetton-Le-Hole

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Finchale Priory

    Finchale Priory, sometimes referred to as Finchale Abbey, was a 13th-century Benedictine priory. The remains are sited by the River Wear, four miles from Durham, England.

    5.9 km · Benedictine cell: hermitage, monastic precinct and site of priory watermill · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Doxford House

    Doxford House is an 18th-century mansion in the Silksworth area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    5.7 km · house in City of Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring

    St Michael and All Angels' Church is the parish church of Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, England. The church dates from the late 12th century and contains the tomb of Bernard Gilpin.

    2.8 km · Grade I listed church in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Matthew

    St Matthew's Church is a Church in Newbottle, Tyne and Wear in the City of Sunderland Metropolitan Borough. It is a Grade II listed building.

    4.4 km · church building in Newbottle, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dalton Park

    Dalton Park is a shopping centre on the outskirts of Murton, County Durham, England, which opened in 2003. As of 2020 it was the largest outlet shopping centre in North East England.

    4.8 km · English shopping centre · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hetton-Le-Hole

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 29 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 107 km · Manchester (MAN), 172 km
Stations
Murton railway station, 2.7 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hetton-Le-Hole
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–18
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hetton-Le-Hole
    157 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–26
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Hetton-Le-Hole
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–28
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hetton-Le-Hole

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hetton-Le-Hole. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry between Port of Tyne, North Shields (near Newcastle) and Ijmuiden near Amsterdam.
  • Get inSee Newcastle page for how to reach the ferry terminal: in brief, take the train between Durham and Newcastle, then the shuttle bus (£3.80 each way, 30 min) or Metro to the ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Durham (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    249 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    305 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    378 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    387 km

If you know how people move in Hetton-Le-Hole – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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Hetton-Le-Hole is 20 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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