Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Skelmersdale within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Skelmersdale, town and township with ry. sta., Ormskirk par., SW. Lancashire, 4½ miles SE. of Ormskirk, 1941 ac., pop. 5707; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Coal mining and brickmaking are carried on. Skelmersdale gives the title of baron to the Bootle-Wilbraham family.
A village in [West] Derby hundred, in the county of Cheshire.