Population 624 Country England Post town KNARESBOROUGH Shire county North Yorkshire Dialling code 01423 | OS grid reference SE327592 Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Saturday 7:34 AM District Borough of Harrogate | |
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Region Yorkshire and the Humber Weather 1°C, Wind W at 5 km/h, 86% Humidity UK parliament constituency Harrogate and Knaresborough | ||
Scotton is a small village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England with a population 283 in the 2001 census, increasing to 624 at the 2011 Census. It is 4 miles north of Harrogate and less than 2 miles from Knaresborough.
Map of Scotton, UK
The home of Guy Fawkes, Scotton has a Guy Fawkes Night celebration in his honour. The village has an annual summer fete called the Scotton Feast. Not held in 2005 for the first time in several years (the organising committee claimed that it was because of a lack of support from the village), it returned in 2006.
Apart from the Guy Fawkes Arms public house, the village has little in the way of public amenities. It has a village hall, a cricket team and a boys and girls junior football teams, but no shop, as the post office closed down rather than become a national lottery outlet.
Scotton Cricket Club play in the Nidderdale Cricket League with the 1st XI in the 2nd division, and the 2nd XI in the 7th division of the same league.
Scotton is sometimes used as a shortcut by people wishing to travel from the A6055 to the B6165 and vice versa.