Gomersal is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1846 from Birstall Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Spen, Smith, Popeley Gate, Moor Lane, Little Gomersal, Latham, Holdenclough, Great Gomersal, Fieldhead, Field Head, Birstall Drub, and Birstal Drub.
Alternative names: Birstall St Mary
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1851
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Moravian/United Brethren, Plymouth Brethren, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GOMERSAL, two hamlets, a township, and a chapelry in Birstall parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The hamlets are Great and Little Gomersal; they lie about 1 mile N of Birstall r. 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. Pop. 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. Pop., 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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Chapel register and monumental inscription, 1806-1963
Author: Grove Chapel (Gomersall, Yorkshire : United Reformed)
Monumental inscriptions of Gomersal Cemetery
Monumental inscriptions of Gomersal Cemetery
Monumental inscriptions of Gomersal Congregational Church, Grove Chapel
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Gomersal, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
Kirklees census returns index : Gomersal, 1851
Author: Brook, Louis F. C.; Whitwam, Stephen David
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Church history ( 1 )
Two hundred years of Christian witness at Gomersal, Mirfield and at Wyke, 1755 to 1955
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Church records ( 8 )
Births and baptisms, 1827-1837
Author: Independent Church. Grove Chapel (Gomersal)
Bishop’s transcripts for Birstall, 1598-1878
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Birstall (Yorkshire)
Burials, 1830-1837
Author: Wesleyan Church. West Lane (Gomersal, England)
Chapel register and monumental inscription, 1806-1963
Author: Grove Chapel (Gomersall, Yorkshire : United Reformed)
Church records, 1751-1837
Author: Moravian Church (Gomersal, England)
Church records, 1788-1960
Author: Moravian Church (Gomersal, England)
Church records, 1829-1975
Author: West Lane Chapel (Gomersal, Yorkshire : Wesleyan Methodist)
Parish registers for Gomersal, 1851-1909
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Gomersal (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Gomersal, Grove Independent, Yorks., Eng
Computer printout of Gomersal, United Brethren or Moravian, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Gomersal, York, England (Independent, Grove Chapel) ; christenings, 1827-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
Parish register printouts of Gomersal, Yorkshire, England (Moravian) ; christenings, 1788-1851
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Directories ( 1 )
Gomersal past and present
Author: Cadman, H. Ashwell
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – History ( 3 )
Gomersal past and present
Author: Cadman, H. Ashwell
Gomersal, a window on the past
Author: Cookson, Gillian; Cookson, Neil A.
An illustrated account of Spen Valley and Mirfield
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Poorhouses, poor law, etc. ( 1 )
Valuation for rates, 1840
Author: Gomersal (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Schools ( 1 )
The fine new schools at Hill Top, Gomersal C. E. School, 1874-1974
Author: Moulds, J. W.
England, Yorkshire, Gomersal – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Gomersal township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Valuation for rates, 1840
Author: Gomersal (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Dewsbury
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Dewsbury
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York
