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SKIRCOAT was a township but it is now an area of Halifax. It lay to the south of Halifax township and was bounded by the river Calder. Part of Skircoat was incorporated into Sowerby Bridge and much of it became part of the Halifax Borough at the turn of the century.
Savile Park formerly called Skircoat Moor had somehow escaped the various methods of enclosure and when Halifax wishing to extend its boundaries tried to acquire it they were opposed by the Freeholders of Skircoat who eventually won their case. Capt. Henry Savile of Rufford Abbey accepted the nominal sum of £100 for his rights and the Moor was renamed Savile Park. It has to remain unenclosed for the benefit of the people of Halifax for ever.
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