Little Smeaton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

[2] The name Smeaton is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the form Smedetone.

This derives from Old English words smiþ (in its genitive plural form smiþa) and tūn ('farm, estate'), and thus once meant 'smiths' farm'.

This element was added to the name to distinguish the settlement from nearby Kirk Smeaton.