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Skelmersdale

British  
/ ˈskɛlməzˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. a town in NW England, in Lancashire: designated a new town in 1962. Pop: 39 279 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On 7 February, Cleary drove a low-loader truck with a white van on the back to an estate in Skelmersdale a few minutes away from the gym.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

The vehicle was seized during a raid at an address in Marchbank Road, Skelmersdale, on 15 September 2021, after it was recorded making more than 40 trips across the UK.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2024

"It's absolutely crazy for a girl coming from Skelmersdale - a little, small, quiet town - it is out of this world," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2022

Skelmersdale in Lancashire was purpose-built in 1961 to cope with the expanding population of Liverpool but famously has no railway station.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2022

The violent bellowing of little Skelmersdale seems to have been the first announcement of anything out of the way.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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