Hetton Lyons country park

Hetton-le-Hole is a village and civil parish situated in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically in County Durham, it is on the A182 between Houghton-le-Spring and Easington Lane, at the southwest corner of Sunderland, off the A690 and close to the A1(M). It has a population of 14,402 including the village of Easington Lane and Warden Law.

The Hetton colliery railway was an 8-mile (13 km) long private railway opened in 1822 by the Hetton Coal Company at Hetton Lyons, County Durham, England. It was the first railway to operate without animal power, and the first entirely new line to be developed by George Stephenson.The railway ran between Hetton Colliery about two miles (3.2 km) south of Houghton-le-Spring, and a staithe on the River Wear where the coal was loaded into boats.