Scotton is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

[1] In the 1870s, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Scotton like this: The township became a separate civil parish in 1866.

Scotton is now categorised as being a 'small town surrounded by inhabited countryside' by the Office for National Statistics.

[10] This major influx in population was most likely due to the opening of Catterick Garrison army barracks at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, when it was founded by Lord Baden Powell.

[13] In 1951, the population of Scotton was 7,655, so it has decreased since due to the decline in military activity in neighbouring Catterick Garrison.

[14] In the 1881 census of England and Wales it was recorded that 26 people worked in agriculture in Scotton, 24 of which were men.

[19] Overall, shops are limited in the village, so Catterick is the closest town to visit for things such as supermarkets and other facilities.

[20] The current church building was built in 1811, but before that there was a chapel nearby Hipswell Hall, that dated back to the 1200 or 1300s.