Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCORTON

SCORTON, a village in Garstang parish, Lancashire; on the river Wyre, under Wyresdale fells, adjacent to the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 3 miles N by E of Garstang. It has a station on the railway, a post-office under Garstang, a Wesleyan chapel of 1842, a Roman Catholic chapel of 1862, a British school, and a largecotton factory.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Garstang CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Scorton

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