Westerton is a village and former civil parish in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.

[2] It is situated between Bishop Auckland and Spennymoor.

It sits on top of a hill which is one of the highest points in County Durham, and is the location of an observatory built for Thomas Wright, who was the first person to suggest that the Milky Way consisted of a flattened disk of stars.

Westerton was formerly a township in the parish of Auckland-St. Andrew,[3] from 1866 Westerton was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bishop Auckland, part also went to form Spennymoor.

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