13 Facts About Skelmersdale

Skelmersdale means "Skjaldmarr's valley", from the Old Norse personal name Skjaldmarr + probably Old Norse dalr "dale, valley".

In 1961 Skelmersdale was designated a new town, designed to house overspill population from the north Merseyside conurbation.

Skelmersdale endured mixed economic fortunes during the last three decades of the 20th century.

Skelmersdale has been designed to work on a roundabout system and there is only one set of traffic lights in the town.

Skelmersdale is served by buses from Arriva depots in St Helens, Bootle and Southport.

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Skelmersdale has a number of primary schools, and had two high schools: Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College and Lathom High School.

Skelmersdale is home to a large public library with facilities including free internet access and an extensive local history section.

Skelmersdale was the worst medium-sized town in Lancashire in 2020 for drugs.

Skelmersdale is in the West Lancashire parliamentary constituency, and has been represented by Rosie Cooper, a Labour Party MP, since the 2005 United Kingdom general election.

Furthermore, as of June 2021, Skelmersdale is represented by three Labour Party councillors across three wards on Lancashire County Council and fifteen of sixteen borough councillors for wards in Skelmersdale on West Lancashire Borough Council are members of the Labour Party, with one independent councillor.

Until the 2021 United Kingdom local elections, Skelmersdale had only elected Labour Party councillors for over fifty years.

Town's football team, Skelmersdale United FC, plays in the Premier Division of the North West Counties Football League and was a FA Vase winner in 1971.

Skelmersdale has units of the Air Training Corps, Army Cadet Force and Sea Cadet Corps.