Hamlet in North Yorkshire, England
Human settlement in England
East Scrafton is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire , England.[ 1] [ 2] It is about 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Leyburn . There is also a larger West Scrafton to the south.
The name Scrafton comes from Old English and means farmstead near a hollow .[ 3]
Looking down the River Cover from St Simon's Bridge, next to the ruined chapel of ease of St Simon and St Jude, by East Scrafton
^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 99 Northallerton & Ripon (Pateley Bridge & Leyburn) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319231593 .
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)) . www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk . Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016 .
^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 409. ISBN 9780199609086 .