Gawthorpe, Kirklees

Gawthorpe
Gawthorpe Location within West Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough	Kirklees
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HUDDERSFIELD
Postcode district	HD5
Dialling code	01484

Gawthorpe, also known as Gawthorp, is a hamlet in the Kirklees district, in the English county of West Yorkshire, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Huddersfield.[1] The nearest major road is the A642 which passes about 0.3 miles (0.5 km) south of the place. In the 19th century Gawthorpe was listed variously as a village[1] or a hamlet[2] in Lepton township, part of the parish of Kirkheaton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Coal was mined at Gawthorpe around the middle of the 19th century.[3]

It was claimed that Chief Justice Gascoigne was born here,[4] however, he was a native of the abandoned estate of Gawthorpe Hall near Harewood House.[5]

Nearby settlements

Nearby settlements include the town of Huddersfield, the villages of Kirkheaton and Lepton and the hamlet of Gawthorpe Green where a dyeworks[6] and a scribbling mill[7][8] were located.

References

1. "Gawthorpe West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
2. Stephen Reynolds Clarke (1828). The New Yorkshire Gazetteer, Or Topographical Dictionary. London: Henry Teesdale.
3. "A Brief History of Kirkheaton". Yetton Together. 2018.
4. John Marius Wilson (1870–1872). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
5. Emily Rayner (April 2014). Transforming the Landscape: Gawthorpe, Harewood and the creation of the modern landscape 1500 - 1750 (PhD thesis) (PDF) (Thesis). The University of York.
6. "Gawthorpe Green Dyeworks". Yorkshire textile mills. 2010–2018.
7. "Levi Mill". Yorkshire textile mills. 2010–2018.
8. "Kirkheaton3". Kirklees Curiosities. Huddersfield Local History.