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This website describes the village of West Scrafton in Coverdale, one of the lesser known dales in North Yorkshire. The village is beautifully set beneath the Roova Crags on the south-east side of the River Cover.

It comprises only about forty dwellings, a third of which are grade 2 listed, and it has a history going back before the first millennium which can be traced from then on.

For more information click on the various buttons below or to view the whole site press the “Next Page” button at the bottom of each page.

The

WEST SCRÆFTUN

Millennium Book

is now available on a CD

complete from cover to cover

in printable PDF format

It is divided into seven sections

for ease of handling on a computer

£5 for local villagers   £6 including p&p

Applications to

Curlew Cottage, West Scrafton, Leyburn, DL8 4RU

Please make cheques payable to  A F Harrison

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WEST SCRAFTON

A unique Coverdale village in the Yorkshire Dales