SKERTON, a township in that part of the parish
of LANCASTER which is in the hundred of LONSDALE,
south of the sands, county palatine of LANCASTER, 1
mile (N.) from Lancaster, containing 1283 inhabitants.
Skerton is a considerable village, separated from,
the town of Lancaster by the river Lune, in which there
is a considerable salmon fishery. A free school was
erected by Jane Jephson, and endowed with £12 a year
by Henry Williamson, in 1767, for twenty children.