West Witton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. Located in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales it lies on the A684 (the main road between Leyburn and Hawes).
The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Swinithwaite. The population of the parish at the 2011 Census was 347.[1] In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 340.[2]
The educator Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme, lived in West Witton, and after his death had his ashes scattered there.[3]
^ abUK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – West Witton Parish (E04007539)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
^"2015 Population Estimates Parishes" (PDF). northyorks.gov.uk. December 2016. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
^Roger Young, ‘James, Eric John Francis, Baron James of Rusholme (1909–1992)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2009 accessed 30 April 2011
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