Traditional county: North Yorkshire · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore West Layton, North Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the West Layton map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
| Place | West Layton |
| Traditional County | North Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.484491 |
| Longitude | -1.780960 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
West Layton, a quiet hamlet in North Yorkshire, holds its secrets close. It lies 9.4 km north-north-west of Richmond (from Richmond: bearing 342°T, OS grid NZ 142 099), and is situated north of Ravensworth village. The landscape here, a subtle weave of gentle slopes and distant, tree-lined horizons, seems to breathe a singular peace, where the light often settles with an almost liquid quality. Fields, stitched together by ancient drystone walls, roll towards the sky, carrying the faint scent of damp earth and sheep. A scattering of stone cottages, their roofs weathered to a soft grey, cluster around a modest village green, a place where the passage of seasons feels more keenly observed than hurried. The very air in West Layton seems to murmur with the quiet industry of generations who worked this land, their lives etched into the slow turning of the soil.
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Explore West Layton, North Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.484491, -1.780960. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | June 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |