Scorton
Scorton means "farmstead near a ditch or ravine". Although it bears an Anglo-Saxon name the village is not a particularly old place and does not feature in the Doomsday Book. The earliest reference to the village goes back to 1587 with most of the Development taking place during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the nineteenth century Scorton earned the name "metropolis" because it stood on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway main line to the North. Long before the railway, mail coaches called on their way from London to Scotland.
The entrance to Wyredale Park is surrounded by woods north east of the village. Its towered structure was the home of Mr. Peter Ormrod, a wealthy head of a Bolton banking firm. Building began in 1856 but it was not completed until 1865. A nephew, Conorel Cross Ormrod lived there and his son Captain Peter Ormrod eventually inherited the property. Captain Peter Ormrod brought a herd of fallow deer to Scorton and released them in the park. In the mid nineteenth century the Duke of Hamilton was in possession of Scorton and it was he who gave land for a school and the east side of the village as well as a site for Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
