Named after George Jackson, a shop owner on the main road in the late 19th century, the area and road were originally known as Skim Corner, the road existing in part from the 16th century and many of the cottages date from this early period.

These two, though are part of the earliest suburban development of the mid 19th century and date from between 1842 and 1862.

Just visible behind the cottages are the Scrubbs Farm Piggeries, which survived into the 1980s, showing that this was the absolute limit of suburban development.