Skelmersdale
Skelmersdale is a town in the Western district of Lancashire, England. It sits on the River Tawd, 6 miles west of Wigan, 13 miles north-east of Liverpool and 15 miles south-west of Preston.Photo: Small-town hero, Public domain.
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- Type: Town with 38,800 residents
- Description: town in West Lancashire, England
- Also known as: “Skem”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Paul’s Church and Church of St Michael.
St Paul’s Church
Church
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Paul's Church is in Church Road, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.
Lathom High School
School
Lathom High School is a coeducational secondary school and specialist technology college located in Skelmersdale in the English county of Lancashire. Following an amalgamation of two former schools Tawd Vale and West Bank High, Lathom High was officially opened in November 1988 by Jack Straw MP.
Skelmersdale
- Categories: unparished area, new town (UK), and locality
- Location: West Lancashire District, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.5502° or 53° 33′ 1″ northLongitude
-2.7751° or 2° 46′ 30″ westPopulation
38,800Elevation
233 feet (71 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SKDOpen location code
9C5VH62F+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 29974910OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Skelmersdale” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اسكلمرسديل”
- Asturian: “Skelmersdale”
- Basque: “Skelmersdale”
- Bulgarian: “Скелмерсдале”
- Cebuano: “Skelmersdale”
- Chinese: “斯克爾默斯代爾”
- Dutch: “Skelmersdale”
- French: “Skelmersdale”
- German: “Skelmersdale”
- Hebrew: “סקלמרסדייל”
- Irish: “Skelmersdale”
- Italian: “Skelmersdale”
- Japanese: “スケルマースデール”
- Ladin: “Skelmersdale”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skelmersdale”
- Persian: “اسکلمرسدیل”
- Polish: “Skelmersdale”
- Romanian: “Skelmersdale”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسکلمرسدیل”
- Spanish: “Skelmersdale”
- Swedish: “Skelmersdale”
- Turkish: “Skelmersdale”
- Volapük: “Skelmersdale”
- Welsh: “Skelmersdale”
- Wolof: “Skelmersdaal”
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