Gawthorpe, also known as ''Gawthorp'', is a hamlet in the

Kirklees Kirklees is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England, governed by Kirklees Council with the status of a metropolitan borough. The largest town and administrative centre of Kirklees is Huddersfield, and the district also includes ...

district, in the English county of

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

, about east of

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

. The nearest major road is the A642 which passes about 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 The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county County of York, West Riding (the area under the control of West Riding County Council), abbreviated County ...

. 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 village of Gawthorp near Harewood House.

Nearby settlements

Nearby settlements include the town of

, the villages of

Kirkheaton Kirkheaton () is a village and former civil parish north-east of Huddersfield, now in the parish of Kirkburton, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is in the Dalton ward of t ...

and

Lepton In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin ( spin ) that does not undergo strong interactions. Two main classes of leptons exist: charged leptons (also known as the electron-like leptons or muons), and neutr ...

and the hamlet of Gawthorpe Green where a dyeworks and a scribbling mill{{cite web, url=https://sites.google.com/site/kirkleescuriosities/file-cabinet/kirkheaton/kirkheaton-2/kirkheaton-3, title=Kirkheaton3, website=Kirklees Curiosities, publisher=Huddersfield Local History were located.

References

Hamlets in West Yorkshire Kirkburton