Gawthorpe, Kirklees
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. 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 or a hamlet 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.
It was claimed that Chief Justice Gascoigne was born here, however, he was a native of the abandoned estate of Gawthorpe Hall near Harewood House.
Nearby settlements
Nearby settlements include the town of Huddersfield, the villages of Kirkheaton and Lepton and the hamlet of Gawthorpe Green where a dyeworks and a scribbling mill were located.
References
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- ^ 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.