West Witton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

It was under the governance of Jervaulx Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries, when the patronage of the parish passed to the crown, before being sold to the Earl of Sunderland.

The village is famous locally for its "Burning of Bartle" ceremony[8][9][10] held on the Saturday nearest 24 August (St Bartholomew's Day).

Bartle stops at various strategic places to recite the doggerel, before finally being burnt at Grassgill End to much merry singing.

[12] St Bartholomew's Church was featured in the British television series All Creatures Great and Small, in the episode "Cats and Dogs".