Egton

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Egton is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about 5 miles west of Whitby and inside the North York Moors National Park. In 2011, 448 people lived there, a small drop from 459 in 2001. The nearby village of Egton Bridge has Egton railway station.

Egton is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Its name comes from Old English Ecga + tun, meaning Ecga’s farm or settlement. It used to belong to the Langbaurgh East wapentake.

From 1974 to 2023, Egton was part of the Borough of Scarborough; it is now governed by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Egton is an important place for family history. Before 1880, many vital parish records were kept there. The parish church holds transcriptions back to 1622. The old church site is half a mile west, where the church was demolished in 1878; after 1870 many parishioners were buried at nearby Aislaby.

In 1269, a weekly market was granted, along with a yearly feast on the eve of St Hilda, the church’s dedication. The market and feast faded away by the 18th century.

Egton was included in the Survey of English Dialects, with a full book on the local dialect written by Hans Tidholm.

The village hosts the Gooseberry Run, the Egton Road Race, an annual charity race first held in 2001 to raise funds to save St Hilda’s Chapel.

Egton Cricket Club is based at the Egton Recreation Ground on the village’s northern edge. The club runs a Midweek Senior XI in the Esk Valley Evening League and a junior section in the Derwent Valley Junior Cricket League.