Place:Gomersal, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameGomersal
Alt namesGomershalesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 316
Gomeshalesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 316
TypeParish, Village, Urban district
Coordinates53.733°N 1.694°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inWest Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoSpenborough, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandurban district of which Gomersal was a part 1915-1974
Kirklees, West Yorkshire, Englanddistrict municipality in which it was located since 1974
Agbrigg and Morley Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandwapentake in which it was situated.
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Gomersal is a town in Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is south of Bradford, east of Cleckheaton and north of Heckmondwike. It is close to the River Spen and forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.

Gomersal was large enough to be an urban district in its own right when urban districts were established in 1894. However, in 1915 it was merged into the Spenborough Urban District.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Gomersal from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"GOMERSAL, two hamlets, a township, and a chapelry in Birstall parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The hamlets are Great and Little Gomersal; they lie about 1 mile N of Birstall [railway] station, and 5¼ SE of Bradford; and they have a post office, of the name of Gomersal, under Leeds, a mechanics' institute, and several mills.
"The township includes also the hamlets of Birkenshaw, Birkenshaw Bottom, Birstall-Drub, Fieldhead, Holdenclough, Latham, Moor Lane, Popeley Gate, Smith, and Spen; and it forms a sub-district in the district of Dewsbury. Acres: 3,119. Real property: £33,284; of which £55 are in quarries, £5,766 in mines, and £355 in gas-works. Population in 1851: 9,926; in 1861: 11,230. Houses: 2,385. Coal-mining and woollen cloth manufactures are largely carried on; and chemicals and cotton-spinning machinery are made. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Free Methodists, and Moravians, and a national school. :"The chapelry includes but a portion of the township; and was constituted in 1846. Population: 3,502. Houses: 744. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £150. Patron: alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1851; and is in the pointed style, with a tower."

NOTE: Birkenshaw grew into a separate place.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Gomersal.

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