Westwick is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies west of Boroughbridge, on the south bank of the River Ure. It is a small parish of only , and consists of a few scattered houses. In 2012 the population of the parish was estimated at 10. As the population was less than 100 at the 2011 Census details are included by ONS in the civil parish of Skelton-on-Ure.
Westwick was historically a township in the ancient parish of Ripon in the West Riding of Yorkshire.National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868), cited on GENUKI It became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Westwick Lock, one of two locks on the navigable section of the River Ure, is in the parish.
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