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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Scorton like this:
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.
Scorton is now part of WYRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WYRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Scorton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Scorton, in Wyre and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24664
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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