Egton is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Whitby. There is a nearby village called Egton Bridge which is home to Egton railway station. The village was included in the Survey of English Dialects. Unlike the other sites, a full book was written on the local dialect by Hans Tidholm. Being a very isolated village, its ways of speech were very unusual in Britain.
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Egton is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England about 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Whitby. There is a nearby village called Egton Bridge which is home to Egton railway station. The village was included in the Survey of English Dialects. Unlike the other sites, a full book was written on the local dialect by Hans Tidholm. Being a very isolated village, its ways of speech were very unusual in Britain.
According to the 2001 UK census, Egton parish had a population of 459.
Egton is home to the Egton Road Race or Gooseberry Run, an annual charity race around the village. The latest Road Race took place on Sunday 8 June 2008.
Egton Abattoir is the last surviving abattoir in the North Yorkshire Moors, there has being a abattoir in the village for over 100 years, and it was run by the government during World War II. The family run abattoir continues slaughtering for local farmers and supplying butchers and the public in the Esk Valley.
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