Whitwell-on-the-Hill is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district, in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

The civil parish population (including Crambe and Foston) at the 2011 Census was 311.

Langdale's 1822 Topographical Dictionary reports "a well of remarkably clear water, from which the town derives its name".

The 1828 The New Yorkshire Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary by Stephen Reynolds Clarke states that Whitwell is "6 miles S.W.

Whitwell Hall, designed by James Pigott Pritchard, 1831, for Joseph Haigh (York Historian 40:36).