Scotton, Harrogate

Scotton
Scotton  Scotton shown within North Yorkshire
Population	624
OS grid reference	SE327592
District	Harrogate
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KNARESBOROUGH
Postcode district	HG5
Dialling code	01423
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Harrogate and Knaresborough
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Coordinates: 54°01′40″N 1°30′15″W / 54.027681°N 1.504145°W / 54.027681; -1.504145

Scotton is a small village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England with a population 283 in the 2001 census, increasing to 624 at the 2011 Census.^[1] It is 4 miles north of Harrogate and less than 2 miles from Knaresborough.

The home of Guy Fawkes, Scotton has a Guy Fawkes Night celebration in his honour. The village has an annual summer fete called the Scotton Feast. Not held in 2005 for the first time in several years (the organising committee claimed that it was because of a lack of support from the village), it returned in 2006.

Scotton, the building with the blue sign, is the Guy Fawkes public house.

Apart from the Guy Fawkes Arms public house, the village has little in the way of public amenities. It has a village hall,^[2] a cricket team and a boys and girls junior football teams, but no shop, as the post office closed down rather than become a national lottery outlet.

Scotton Cricket Club play in the Nidderdale Cricket League with the 1st XI in the 2nd division, and the 2nd XI in the 7th division of the same league.

Scotton is sometimes used as a shortcut by people wishing to travel from the A6055 to the B6165 and vice versa.

References

http://scottonvillagehall.co.uk/

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