# Skipton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #59,024

## Definitions
1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD9851).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.
3. A town in the Shire of Corangamite and the Shire of Pyrenees, south western Victoria, Australia

## Etymology
From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) (with change from sh to sk due to Scandinavian influence) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/skipton