Gawthorpe, Kirklees

Hamlet in West Yorkshire, England

Human settlement in England

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

List of places

England
Yorkshire

53°38′39″N 1°43′05″W﻿ / ﻿53.6442°N 1.7181°W﻿ / 53.6442; -1.7181

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

[edit]

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

[edit]

1. ^ a b "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.