Hanging Heaton is a village in West Yorkshire, England.
Partly in both Batley and Dewsbury, it is an historic village mentioned in the Domesday Book under the name 'Etun'.
[2] With housing dating from the 16th century to the present day, it is a varied community with a successful cricket club,[3] golf club, two churches, a pub and a community group.
[5] Hanging Heaton was the birthplace of physiologist Robert Edwards, who was the pioneer of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
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