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Ossett is a market town since 1974 within the metropolitan district of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Until 1974 part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is halfway between Dewsbury, to the west, and Wakefield, to the east. At the 2011 UK Census, the population was 21,231. Ossett cum Gawthorpe was a township in the ancient parish of Dewsbury; it became a civil parish in 1866, and was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Ossett in 1890. Under the Local Government Act 1972, it became an unparished area in the City of Wakefield. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Ossett. There is a long History section covering its origins, the impact of the Industrial Revolution (it was a coal-mining area), the Second World War, and its attempts at being a spa town. Note: Gawthorpe near Ossett is not the Gawthorpe which was the seat of the Gascoigne family.
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