Ossett cum Gawthorpe, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  West Riding  Ossett cum Gawthorpe

Parish History
OSSETT,  with Gawthorpe, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Dewsbury, Lower division of the wapentake of Agbrigg, W. riding of York, 3½ miles (W. )from Wakefield; containing 6078 inhabitants. This chapelry, which comprises by admeasurement 2990 acres, is situated on the south side of the road between Dewsbury and Wakefield, and intersected by the Manchester and Leeds railway. The village is large and populous; the inhabitants are partly employed in the manufacture of cloth, blankets, and worsteds, and in some works for preparing the various ingredients for dyeing. On Ossett Common are the Cheltenham Baths, the water of which contains iron and hydrogen gas, and is esteemed by invalids. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £162, with a glebe-house; patron,the Vicar of Dewsbury, whose tithes here (those on mills excepted) were commuted for land in 1807. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and originally erected about 200 years since, is an unsightly edifice, built in1806, partly by a grant of £300 from the Incorporated Society, and contains 1000 sittings, 300 of which are free. A church district named South Ossett was endowed in 1846 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: the living is in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop ofRipon, alternately. '''There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. '''A free school, establishedin 1745, and rebuilt in 1834, is endowed with cottages and land producing about £12 per annum, to which sum Joshua Haigh, Esq., of Long Lands Hall, added in 1836 £12 per annum.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 486-491. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51196 Date accessed: 22 September 2011..

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Probate records
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