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Gawthorpe, Kirklees

Hamlets in West YorkshireKirkburton

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 village of Gawthorp near Harewood House.

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Gawthorpe, Kirklees
Gawthorpe Lane, Kirklees Lepton

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Gawthorpe Lane
HD5 0NY Kirklees, Lepton
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