Wharton is a civil parish near Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.

[1] As the population taken at the 2011 Census remained less than 100 details are included in the parish of Mallerstang.

Wharton was historically a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Stephen.

[2] It became part of Cumbria in 1974, and since 2016 has fallen within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

[4] Kirkby Stephen railway station is within the northern boundary of the parish.