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Skippingdale Plantation

Other OS name in the Parish of Crosby

Etymology

, cf. High Skippingdale , Low Skippingdale , New Skippingdale 1838TA ( West Halton ) , perhaps from scypen ' a shippen ' , in a Scandinavianised form , and deill ' a portion, a share of land ' , cf. Skippingdale in Manton f. ns . ( b ) .