Westnewton is a small village and civil parish in the Allerdale District, in the county of Cumbria, England. The 2011 census had a population of 265. The village of Westnewton is situated to the north-west of the Lake District, on the relatively flat plain half way between the Lake District hills and the Solway Firth. It is a small village located two miles north of Aspatria, on the B5301  Aspatria and Silloth road. The small hamlet of New Cowper is located one-and-a-half miles to the north-west. The landscape generally in this area is one of gently undulating fields, relatively devoid of features other than the thorn field-hedges, with shallow valleys carrying small streams, such as the Black Dub beck. Westnewton has a school called St Matthew's Church of England School, a pub called the Swan Inn (now closed down by a man with no friends), a church called St Matthew's Church, and a cemetery.