Gawber
| Gawber | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 The Miners Rest, Gawber | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE323072 |
| Location: | 53°33’38"N, 1°30’48"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Barnsley |
| Postcode: | S75 |
| Dialling code: | 01226 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Barnsley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Barnsley Central |
Gawber is a village which has become swallowed within the townscape of Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The origin of the place-name is from the Old English words galga and beorg meaning gallows hill and appears as Galgbergh in 1304.[1]
In A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Gawber is noted for its collieries.[2] The North Gawber Colliery which closed in 1988 was located to the north in Mapplewell and the East Gawber Hall Colliery, of which the buried remains of the colliery fanhouse are a scheduled monument, was to the north-east of Gawber.[3][4]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Gawber) |
- "History of Gawber, in Barnsley and West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25457. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
References
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Samuel Lewis, ed (1848). "Barton, St Michael - Basing". A Topographical Dictionary of England. London: S Lewis. pp. 164–168. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp164-168. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ "Green light given Harworth's North Gawber development". Harworth Group. https://harworthgroup.com/green-light-given-harworths-north-gawber-development/. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1017748: East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm (Scheduled ancient monument entry)