Scorton is a small village near the

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, in the Wyre district of

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, England. It is located north of

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. The name means "''farmstead near a ditch or ravine''."

Background

In the 19th century there was a

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in the village and also a

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on the

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which ran from 1841 until 1939. The village has three churches, a primary school, village hall, the Priory Hotel, Daisy Clough Nurseries and Wyresdale Park, and is home to The Barn garden centre, gift shop, cafe and restaurant. The annual Scorton Steam show takes place on Fathers' Day weekend in June each year and the Lancashire Game and Country Festival which takes place at the same purpose-built showground. The hills around include the much walked Nicky Nook on the edge of the

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area.

Buildings

St. Peters Church, built 1878–79, one of three churches in the village, has a special family grave set up for the Farnworth and Metcalfe family, by James Metcalfe in the late 1950s. Wyresdale Hall, built 1856–58, is one mile north-east and was built for the Ormrod family of

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. Scorton Village Hall, built 1926, gifted by the Ormrod family to the people of the village.

Hall

Wyresdale Hall, a

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country house and estate with licensed wedding barns, fishing lake and host to the Apple Store Cafe is located near the village.Wyresdale Park Barn Weddings https://www.wyresdalepark.co.uk/barn-wedding-lancashire

People

Thomas Hayton Mawson Thomas Hayton Mawson (5 May 1861 – 14 November 1933), known as T. H. Mawson, was a British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner. Personal life Mawson was born in Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire, and left school at age 12. H ...

landscape architect was born here in 1861. * John Parkinson, designer of many of Los Angeles' iconic buildings, was born here in 1861.

Gallery

File:Wyresdale Hall Scorton.jpg, Wyresdale Hall File:Stouts Bar, Scorton, Lancashire.jpg, Stouts Bar File:Six Arches Bridge, on the River Wyre - geograph.org.uk - 61049.jpg, Six Arches Bridge File:The Police Station, on the A6, Cabus - geograph.org.uk - 434635.jpg, Old Police Station ( A6) File:Post Office and Village Store - geograph.org.uk - 528133.jpg, Scorton Village Shop and Post Office

References

External links

Scorton VillageScorton-Lancs.co.ukScorton Steam - annual event held in June of each year since 2005.Lancashire Game and Country Festival
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