Skelmersdale, Lancashire

Description
Skelmersdale, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The village stands 4 1/2 miles ESE of Ormskirk, and gives the title of Baron to the family of Bootle-Wilbraham. It has a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ormskirk. There are a market hall and the parish council offices. Acreage of township, 1941; population, 6627. There is a parish council of fifteen members. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1858. The manor belongs to the Earl of Lathom. Coal is worked and there is a pottery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Liverpool; gross value, £355 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Ormskirk. The church was built about 1776 and enlarged in 1823. There are also a mission church, Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic chapels, and an endowed school.