Hesket, also known as Hesket-in-the-Forest, is a large civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, along the main A6 between Carlisle and Penrith. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,363, increasing to 2,588 at the 2011 census, and estimated at 2,774 in 2019. The parish formed in 1894 with the passing of the Local Government Act 1894 and grew to incorporate the former parish of Plumpton Wall by a County Review Order in 1934. The Parish is part of the historic royal hunting ground of Inglewood Forest, and settlement in the area dates back to the Roman occupation.