Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GAWTHORPE

GAWTHORPE, a village in Septon township, Kirkheaton parish, W. R. -Yorkshire; 3¾ miles E by S of Huddersfield. Justice Gascoigne, who sent Prince Henry to prison, was a native.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Gawthorpe

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