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
- ^ a b "Gawthorpe West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ Stephen Reynolds Clarke (1828). The New Yorkshire Gazetteer, Or Topographical Dictionary. London: Henry Teesdale.
- ^ "A Brief History of Kirkheaton". Yetton Together. 2018.
- ^ John Marius Wilson (1870–1872). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Gawthorpe Green Dyeworks". Yorkshire textile mills. 2010–2018.
- ^ "Levi Mill". Yorkshire textile mills. 2010–2018.
- ^ "Kirkheaton3". Kirklees Curiosities. Huddersfield Local History.