SKILGATE, a parish in the hundred of WILLITON-and-FREEMANNERS, county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Wiveliscombe, containing 226 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £9. 9- 4. The Rev. R. Bere was patron in 1817. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist.