Hang is believed to derive from the Old English word Hangar, the place is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Hotun and they were divided up into nine parishes.
Hang is believed to derive from the Old English word Hangar which meant a wooded slope. The place is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Hotun. Hang East was divided up into nine parishes; Bedale, Catterick, Hornby, Kirkby Fleetham, Masham, Patrick Brompton, Scruton, Thornton Watlass and Well. 
