Hesleden, North Yorkshire

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Nether Hesleden
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Upper Hesleden

Hesleden is a hamlet in Littondale in the Yorkshire Dales in England. It lies within the civil parish of Halton Gill in the county of North Yorkshire. Nether Hesleden is Script error: No such module "convert". west of Litton, and Upper Hesleden is a further Script error: No such module "convert". west, on the road from Halton Gill to Stainforth.

Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.[1] From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Craven, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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.[2]

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