Skelmersdale?

Question

is skelmersdale in liverpool?? if not why do they have broad scouse accents??

Answer 1

If someone from Skelmersdale has a broad Liverpool (scouse) accent, then he or she is not originally from Skelmersdale.
They would have a Lancashire accent closer to a Wigan accent, as Wigan is only about 5 miles away, whereas Liverpool is about 16 miles away.
Accents in the U.K. vary immensely, and in many cases it is possible to pick out a difference in an accent over less than a mile.

Answer 2

Skelmersdale is a 'New Town' similar to Milton Keynes.

The old Village of Skelmersdale is not far from Wigan, about 15 miles north of Liverpool. During what was called the 'slum clearances' of the sixties many of the old inner city communities where broken up, and offered new housing on the outskirts of Liverpool in Speke, Halewood, Cantril farm (now called Stockbridge Village) and Kirkby.

Skelmersdale was another of these not on the outskirts of Liverpool, but a New Town built on a greenfield site. The vast Majority of residents where lured from Liverpool by promises of cheap rents and country air.

If you go to Corby, its full of Scottish who where lured by cheap housing and jobs in the steel mills.