What is "skipton"

Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to the south of the Yorkshire Dales, northwest of Bradford and west of York. At the 2011 Census, Skipton had a population of 14,623.

Skipton was a county constituency centred on the town of Skipton in Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished nearly a hundred years later, for the 1983 general election. It was then partly replaced by the new Skipton and Ripon constituency.

Skipton, also known as Skipton-in-Craven, is a town in North Yorkshire, England.

Skipton may also refer to:

• Skipton, Victoria, Australia
• Skipton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, England
• RAF Skipton-on-Swale, an ex-Royal Air Force station