Claim: 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.
Evidence: 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.