Editing Skelmanthorpe (section)

==Name==

The village was recorded as ''Scelmertorp'' in the [[Domesday Book]] in the year [[1086 AD]]. The name derives from the [[Old Norse|Norse]] [[personal name]] ''Skjaldmarr'' and ''[[thorp]]''; thus having the meaning of an "outlying farmstead of a man called Skjaldmarr".<ref name=Simpson>{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=David |title=A dictionary of British place-names |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199609086 |page=422}}</ref>

Locals know it as "Shat", which appears to be an abbreviation of "Shatterers", the name by which the locals are known. Local labour was taken on during construction of the railway to break or 'shatter' rocks as well as work on the excavations. These unskilled labourers were referred to as Shatterers.<ref name=shat>{{cite web|title="Shat" name explanation |work=Skelmanthorpe Village Trail – A scenic self-guided walk around the historic village of Skelmanthorpe. |url=http://www.denbydale.com/content/skelmanthorpe_trail |access-date=23 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725115847/http://www.denbydale.com/content/skelmanthorpe_trail |archive-date=25 July 2008 }}</ref> The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' actress [[Jodie Whittaker]] has explained the origins of the term and referred to herself as a "Shat lass".<ref name=lass>[https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tv/watch-jodie-whittaker-explain-hollywood-15216438 Watch Jodie Whittaker explain to Hollywood stars on the Graham Norton Show why she is a 'Shat lass'], Yorkshire Live, 29 September 2018</ref>