English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Skelton

Parish in the County of Cumberland

Etymology

Hutton-in-the-Forest (supra 208), and Middlesceugh and Braithwaite (supra 224) were added to Skelton in 1934.

Major Settlements