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In 2012, a £20m vision to create a regenerated town centre for Skelmersdale was revealed. It is expected to create as many as 500 permanent jobs, and current projections seem to satisfy that target. Although Skelmersdale faces a looming employment crisis, the regeneration of the town centre is a step
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Skelmersdale endured mixed economic fortunes during the last three decades of the 20th century. With the economic downturn in the late 1970s, large industrial employers left the town en masse, resulting in an increase in crime, drug abuse and poverty. Today, West Lancashire has a crime rate below the
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appear in road names, but only in the parts of the town that pre-date or post-date the New Town development. The road names in New Town areas are also arranged in a loosely alphabetical format with large areas being defined by a single letter, for example, Larkhill, Leeswood, Ledburn and Lindens all
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Proposals included a new food store as well as a number of bars, shops and restaurants, and a five-screen cinema. A new promenade would be fronted by these establishments to overlook the Tawd Valley Park, and a new civic square would also be created between the Concourse Shopping Centre and the town
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published a report, Connecting Communities, which also recommended the opening of a new rail link to Skelmersdale. This time the recommendation was via the Skelmersdale Branch from Ormskirk. In February 2017, Lancashire County Council identified the site of the former Glenburn Sports College / West
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Roads in the industrial estates and the main roads in the town such as Gillibrands Road follow the usual naming conventions, although the industrial estates do feature street names beginning with the same letter. For example, Pikelaw Place, Penketh Place, Pinfold Place and Priorswood Place are all
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Skelmersdale has been designed to work on a roundabout system and there is only one set of traffic lights in the town. For ease of access, there is a subway network allowing pedestrians to move through the town without needing to cross potentially hazardous roads. However, the subway system was
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Skelmersdale's population in 1851 was only 760, but 50 years later it had increased to 5,699. It was a busy coal mining town. There were over 100 fatalities in Skelmersdale collieries from 1851 to 1900, according to the Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines, and an unknown number of serious
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Plans for the reopening were dealt a blow when the Department for Transport announced in July 2022 that it was rejecting the Strategic Outline Business Case. The DfT instead suggested that better bus links with the Kirkby–Wigan rail line would be a cheaper way of improving connectivity for
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and required purchase by the council in order for the station to be built. In 2017, Merseytravel and Lancashire County Council committed £5 million into a study to investigate the possibility of re-opening the station. Combined with the creation of a new station at
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restaurant. McDonald's and KFC are located in the nearby car park, however the Domino's chain is located inside the shopping centre on the ground floor, with external doors to allow for access after shopping centre hours. The Concourse used to have an artwork by
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Skelmersdale's crime rates are above the Lancashire average at 93 crimes per 1,000 people, and is the 21st most dangerous overall out of Lancashire's 236 towns, villages, and cities. Skelmersdale was the worst medium-sized town in Lancashire in 2020 for drugs.
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The New Town areas of Skelmersdale have a road-naming system where residential streets rarely feature words such as "Road" and "Street" and single-name roads are common, e.g. Abbeywood, Fairburn, Brierfield, Thornwood. "Road", "Street", "Lane" and "Drive"
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The town is host to a number of cultural and social organisations, such as the Artz Centre which provides opportunities in creative fields, and The Birchwood Centre which aims to reduce social isolation and homelessness.
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In 1858, Blague Gate railway station in Skelmersdale was opened on the new Ormskirk to Rainford line. It was renamed to Skelmersdale railway station in 1874, before closing in 1956 and its demolition shortly after 1968.
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Christianity. By the start of the 20th century there were at least six dissenting chapels in the town: two Wesleyan (Berry Street, closed in the 1920s, and Liverpool Road, closed 1969), an independent Methodist, a
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It is locally known as "Skem", with a further distinction being made between "Old Skem" (the area which was a small mining town before 1961) and the broader swathe of development on the east side of the town.
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1439 (Skelmersdale) Squadron, Air Cadets, formed at Upholland Grammar School in 1941 as the 'Beacon Squadron' and provided airmanship training for young men and those about to join the RAF in time for the
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Lancashire College Westbank Campus site as the preferred location for a railway station for the town. Despite the Glenburn Sports College being owned by the council, the Westbank Campus site was owned by
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Skelmersdale Independent Party, established in February 2019, is active in the town and advocates for the establishment of a Skelmersdale Town Council. While the party has contested multiple seats on
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According to urban planning consultancy Space Syntax, Skelmersdale's fragmented streets have made its centre relatively inaccessible and this has resulted in segregated land use. According to a 2017
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acquired the site of the former Glenburn Sports College, and approved £2 million to demolish the buildings on the site and prepare the area for the construction of a railway station.
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to Kirkby service, to terminate at a new station in the centre of Skelmersdale. Rainford will then become an interchange station for services to and from Wigan Wallgate. In 2009, the
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acquired the site of the former Glenburn Sports College, and approved £2 million of funding to demolish the site and prepare the location for development as a railway station.
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Chartered Architects & Town Planners, with a foreword by A. J. Kentish Barnes, Chairman of the Skelmersdale Development Corporation, Skelmersdale Development Corporation;
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company Star Cinemas in May 2020, which opened in May 2021 under the name Ultra Star Cinema (However it was re-branded to “Capitol Cinema” in June 2021.) In June 2020,
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The new Lidl store opened on the 9th June 2022, and the B&M store opened on the 6th July 2022. In addition to this, the third vacant retail unit was taken up by
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In 2022, Lancashire County Council announced that intends to 'dispose' of the former Glenburn Sports College and West Lancashire College land, under the
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of 1086. The town is further divided into seven wards: Skelmersdale North, Skelmersdale South, Birch Green, Ashurst, Digmoor, Moorside and Tanhouse.
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library. Regeneration specialists St Modwen have been working on the proposals with West Lancashire Council and the Homes and Communities Agency.
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club, the Bowmen of Skelmersdale, whose collective members hold 19 county records and 14 world records held by three members of the same family (
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in the 1970s, and the premises were sold. Skelmersdale is now served by buses from Arriva depots in St Helens, Bootle and Southport. In 2023, a
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There are also smaller shopping parades in Skelmersdale which include Sandy Lane Shopping Centre, Digmoor Parade and Ashurst Shopping Centre.
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Until the creation of Skelmersdale Urban District Council at the end of the 19th century, the town was part of the Parish of Ormskirk in the
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Skelmersdale is also home to a large public library with facilities including free internet access and an extensive local history section.
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launched the college's 'School of Science', a £1.3 million facility with the intention of increasing the number of students who study
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attendance rate in Lancashire for 0–4 and 5–19 year olds. Furthermore, Skelmersdale's poverty levels are above the national average.
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snack food factory, Chemist 4 U and many others. Skelmersdale formerly housed the corporate base and a distribution centre for
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Skelmersdale's town centre is made up of the Concourse Shopping Centre, (colloquially known as "the Connie") as well as the
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report, Skelmersdale has one of the highest percentages of children living in poverty in Lancashire at 27%, and the highest
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Skelmersdale. This would be introduced with the 319 Stagecoach bus service, which runs between Skelmersdale Bus Station and
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There are plans to redevelop the land behind the new Lidl store to build a new health and wellbeing centre, featuring a
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and others with regard to its safety and sustainability, as they are not regularly maintained by the county council.
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also once played for the club. Skelmersdale Football Club is currently located at JMO Sports Park in the town.
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towards recovery, and up to 100 extra jobs would be generated during the scheme's construction phase alone.
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The New Town is the larger eastern part of the town which was built primarily in the 1960s as a second wave
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has a unit in Skelmersdale that trains cadets aged from 10 to 17 years. The unit is located on Tawd Road.
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Network Rail (November 2008) Merseyside Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) Draft for Consultation, Page 93
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and approved by West Lancashire Borough Council to build a Starbucks café in the car park of the town's
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injuries. In 1880 there were 14 Skelmersdale collieries—most of them closed in the 1920s and '30s.
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The Army Cadets are part of 'S' Company of the Lancashire Force. They are based on Daniels Lane.
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of 1086, much of the town, including the current town centre, was developed as a second wave
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prepared for the Skelmersdale Development Corporation by L. Hugh Wilson, Hugh Wilson &
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Although consisting predominantly of housing estates, Skelmersdale's industry includes the
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store, along with an additional vacant retail unit, which would later be leased out to
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closed on 31 August 2016 following an unsuccessful campaign backed by former local MP
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in Kirkby, it is believed that the scheme could cost around £300 million to develop.
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and the Northwest Regional Development Agency and publicly headed by the designer
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national average. 2006 saw a regeneration drive for the town coordinated through
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Today, there is little to remind people that the town was part of the once great
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People in Need of a Future: A Survey of the Long-term Unemployed in Skelmersdale
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in the 1960s. The town's initial development as a coal town coincided with the
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In September 2011, the company providing most of Skelmersdale's bus services,
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Skelmersdale has a number of primary schools, and has two high schools:
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service to Headbolt Lane in Kirkby was introduced, and in late 2023, a
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Edward Baines, William Robert Whatton, Brooke Herford, James Croston,
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community within Skelmersdale, called "European Sidhaland". It has a
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The Concourse is home to a number of national chain stores such as
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supermarket, a library, a swimming pool and gym named after former
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in 1956, the town has become the second most populous town in the
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team who play at JMO Sports Park in the town, are members of the
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Skem – The Broken Promise: Unemployment in Skelmersdale New Town
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has a campus in the centre of the town. The college merged with
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which, as of 2019, performed 'well above average' according to
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runs along the south of Skelmersdale from Wigan and the nearby
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Hope Island, one of many roundabouts found within Skelmersdale.
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to the south. Furthermore, the town lies on the periphery of
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runs to the south of Skelmersdale, from Wigan to Liverpool.
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Collins, Simon; Tucker, Angela; Abbas, Farha (March 2015).
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The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster
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parliamentary constituency, and has been represented by
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Potential Rail Improvements in North Western England
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Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College
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Skelmersdale, Lancashire

Skelmersdale is located in the Borough of West Lancashire
Skelmersdale is located in Skelmersdale
Skelmersdale is located in Lancashire
Lancashire
OS grid reference
SD487062
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District
West Lancashire
Shire county
Lancashire
Region
North West
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England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
WN8
Dialling code
Police
Lancashire
Fire
Lancashire
Ambulance
North West
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