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editI've aded a link to the available data on Skinnand in the Clergy of the Church of England Database. It's interesting that appointments were still being made to the parish at least until 1822 (which is basically where the project stops recording). Earlier data is not yet avaialble, so it's hard to draw too many conclusions so far. David Underdown (talk) 20:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I would take issue with this otherwise excellent entry on Skinnand, only in respect of where it states that Skinnand once stood. Although today’s road signage and Google Maps label that spot as "Skinnand", they are neither of them correct as regards where the historic village was located. The pictured: “derelict farmhouse – all that remains of Skinnand village” is Manor Farm, about a quarter-mile beyond the bottom end of Parson Lane. That spot is about a mile south-south-east of the original Skinnand. In the days when the original Skinnand village stood, Manor Farm was isolated from the village. It was never in the historic village. It is not where the old village stood. It is therefore not "all that remains of Skinnand village". The location pictured as: “The field where Skinnand once stood” is also not the field where Skinnand once stood.
About one mile north-north-west of Manor Farm, is, still today, a fenced-off graveyard in undulating meadowland. That graveyard, said to have been in use till 1911, contains memorial stones for the Massey and Woolfitt families which farmed Skinnand. The Skinnand church and the original village housing was, as is to be expected, in the vicinity of that graveyard. Ordnance Survey maps, including one from 1889 testify to that.
Copying in full and pasting the following link into the relevant box in such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will take you to an illustrative map on the ‘Streetmap’ website, matching with old Ordnance Survey maps, and thus confirming the points made above. On the illustrative map, the cross near the Gothic script labelled ‘Skinnand Village’ marks where Skinnand’s church once stood. The village would, of course, have been around the church:-
To locate on Google Maps in the satellite view, where Skinnand once stood, search for Skinnand, and Manor Farm will come up labeled as “Skinnand”. Drag the picture across till, to the west, you locate a broad wavy line running north-south: the River Brant. Drag the map down to follow the River Brant north. Eventually you will find a meadow among the ploughed fields. In that meadow you can see the scars where the Skinnand houses were. The scraped grounds of Ivy House Farm are right next door. At maximum Google maps satellite view magnification, keen eyes will spot a small square just to the west of Ivy House farm's car park. That square is where the Skinnand graveyard can still be found. That is where the Skinnand church stood. That is where Skinnand village stood over the ages.....[User:PedantPeasant](talk) 15:40, 16 April 2011 (UTC)