Picton, North Yorkshire

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Picton is a tiny hamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It sits about 4 miles south of Yarm, 8 miles south of Middlesbrough, and just west of the A19. The name comes from Old English and means “Pica’s farm.” It used to be spelled Pickton until the 1850s, and the old spelling is carved on the Picton Liberty stone marking the boundary with Kirklevington.

The parish had 108 people in 2001 and 135 in 2011. From 1974 to 2023 it was in the Hambleton district; it is now administered by North Yorkshire Council. A stream to the east, the Picton Stell, runs by the village.

Picton holds a show on the third Saturday in July, with horse, dog, craft and horticulture competitions, games for children, a bar and refreshment stalls.

The Station is the village pub, and there is a small disused church, the Grade II listed Church of St Hilary, which was abandoned in 2004 due to structural problems. The Station pub gets its name from the nearby railway station to the east on the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe line, which was a junction for trains to Picton to Battersby. The station closed to passengers in 1960 and to goods in 1964.