Blubberhouses is a small village and civil parish in the Washburn Valley in North Yorkshire, England.

Westhouse opened in the 1790s to process flax, but closed in 1877 and the stone from the mill was used in the construction of the dam wall of Fewston Reservoir.

[12][13] The 19th century section has suffered many landslips, and so a new bypass, following the route of the original turnpike, is due to open in 2025.

[16] Blubberhouses is used as a key setting for local composer Andy Tillison's composition Le Sacre Du Travail,[17] a five movement electric sinfonia recorded by the progressive rock ensemble The Tangent.

The work is, according to the CD sleeve notes, loosely based around Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring).

[18] A short story in the CD sleeve describes the journey of a man travelling to work through the village in the small hours of the morning.