Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Baron Skelmersdale | Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale | Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale | 7th Baron Skelmersdale |
Lord Skelmersdale succeeded to the peerage in 1973 on the death of his father Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale.
The Skelmersdale Branch railway (SKE) connected the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway at Ormskirk with Rainford Junction (via Skelmersdale).
The Urban Area includes the integrated conurbation around Wigan, (containing the contiguous areas of Ince-in-Makerfield, Orrell and Wigan itself), along with the outlying areas of Standish, Abram and the West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale.
Dacre held the Lancashire manors of Skelmersdale, Whiston, Speke, and Parr, and he obtained a charter for the holding of a three-day market and moveable fair at Prescot, then also in Lancashire, to begin on the Wednesday following Corpus Christi.