Lancashire
Wyre District
Nether Wyresdale

Scorton

Scorton is a small village near the , in the Wyre district of , England. It is located north of . The name means "farmstead near a ditch or ravine."…
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  • Type: Village with 297 residents
  • Description: village in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England
  • Also known as: “Scorton, Lancashire”
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Peter’s Church, Scorton and Wyresdale Park.

Church
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St Peter's Church is in the village of Scorton, , England. It is an active Anglican in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.

Manor estate
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is an English country house and licensed wedding ceremony venue located within the , to the northeast of Scorton, Lancashire, England.

Archaeological site
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is a castle, now ruined, near the town of in , England. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, had the castle built in 1490 to provide defence for his estates around . is situated 2½ miles south of Scorton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garstang and Oakenclough.

Town
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is an ancient market town and civil parish within the Wyre borough of , England. It is 10 miles north of the city of and the same distance south of . is situated 2 miles south of Scorton.

Hamlet
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is an English hamlet located on the edge of the in . is a small and scattered community, which appears to have developed largely as a result of a paper mill being sited here to make use of the water power available from the swiftly flowing River Calder. is situated 2½ miles east of Scorton.

Hamlet
Photo: Brian Houghton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an English village, located on the edge of the in . It lies on the River Calder in a deep valley with only a single cul-de-sac providing vehicular access. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Scorton.

Scorton

Latitude
53.93253° or 53° 55′ 57″ north
Longitude
-2.75952° or 2° 45′ 34″ west
Population
297
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
Open location code
9C5VW6MR+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29491394
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2638367
Wiki­data ID
Q7435434
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Scorton” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Scorton”
  • Dutch: “Scorton, Lancashire”
  • French: “Scorton”
  • Irish: “Scorton”
  • Polish: “Scorton (Lancashire)”
  • Polish: “Scorton”
  • Swedish: “Scorton, Lancashire”
  • Swedish: “Scorton”
  • Welsh: “Scorton, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
  • Welsh: “Scorton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Scorton”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.