Great Heck
Great Heck is a small village in Heck parish, about 7 miles south of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was 201 at the 2011 census.Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 201 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Great Heck, North Yorkshire” and “Heck”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hensall railway station and St Paul’s Church, Hensall.
Hensall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 22 miles east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies GB Railfreight, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK that transport coal and limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment.
St Paul’s Church, Hensall
Church
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Paul's Church is the parish church of Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England. Until the mid-19th century, Hensall formed part of the parish of St Laurence's Church, Snaith.
Whitley Bridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Adambro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 20 miles east of Leeds. Whitley Bridge railway station is situated 2 miles northwest of Great Heck.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hensall and Whitley.
Hensall
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hensall is a village and civil parish in the English county of North Yorkshire.
Whitley
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitley is a village in North Yorkshire, England, close to the Aire and Calder Navigation and the M62 motorway. The population of the village at the 2001 census was recorded as being 574, which had risen to 1,021 by the time of the 2011 census. Whitley is situated 2 miles west of Great Heck.
Pollington
Village
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pollington is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles south-west of the town of Snaith and 1 mile south of the M62 motorway. Pollington is situated 2 miles southeast of Great Heck.
Great Heck
- Category: locality
- Location: Heck, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.68262° or 53° 40′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.11277° or 1° 6′ 46″ westPopulation
201Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)Open location code
9C5WMVMP+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1870082645OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2648081Wikidata ID
Q5599310
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Polish—“Great Heck” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Great Heck”
- French: “Great Heck”
- Irish: “Great Heck”
- Polish: “Great Heck”
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