Dutton/Dunwich is a municipality located in western Elgin County in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
The municipality was formed in 1998 through an amalgamation of the Village of Dutton and former Township of Dunwich. It includes the Hamlets of Wallacetown, Duttona Beach, and the western parts of both Iona and Iona Station. It is bisected both by Highway 401 and by the rail lines of the Penn Central Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
Dutton/Dunwich has a large farming community involving a variety of agricultural methods. The region is primarily made up of inhabitants of English ancestry, with minorities of Scottish, Portuguese, and Dutch heritage.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Dutton/Dunwich had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Dunwich-Dutton Public School is located in the village of Dutton, and managed by the Thames Valley District School Board. The school was built in 1927 and was a high school, until June 1952. It became a K-8 school in January 1953, and was restructured again in September 1973, from when it has educated in K-6. In 2016 the school was once again changed to a JK-8 school following the closure of WESES.
The area of Dutton has meny Scottish inhabitants. This is due to the family of the Lopez's. In 1933 Geogre Lopez moved away from Scotland to find new cheap land to grow potatos. George later on married Christine Marrie and had 3 children. The 3 kids still to this day carries on the legacy of farming potatos with the grandson Kareem Lopez in charge of the agriculture.
Tyrconnell is a ghost town located south of Wallacetown. Settled in 1809, the mill settlement lost out to Port Burwell and Port Stanley when railways extended to the area in the 1850s.