West Scrafton is a village and civil parish in Coverdale in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

The parish extends 2.5 miles (4 km) south of the village, rising over West Scrafton Moor to the peak of Great Haw.

West Scrafton has featured several times in the British television series All Creatures Great and Small, in the episodes "A New Chapter" and "Alarms & Excursions".

In the Middle Ages West Scrafton was a vill held by the Abbot of Coverham.

In the 19th century a small coal mine, the West Scrafton Colliery, was worked on the moorland 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the village.