Gomersal

1841 Census – Gomersal District is split into 14 Enumeration Districts plus a separate "district" for the Workhouse. Descriptions and addresses associated within Enumeration Districts for this area:

Enumeration District: 1
Ref: HO 107/1290/7
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Not recorded

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at a house in Coach Lane occupied by John Carter, bounded on the south east and north by the Townships of Batley, Morley, Gildersome and Drighlington, and on the west by the Gelderd Turnpike Road as far as Dark Lane, Owler Lane to Field Head and Field Head Lane to the Township of Drighlington.

Enumeration District: 2
Ref: HO 107/1290/7
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: R L Fawcett

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the Coach and Horses public house in Coach Lane, bounded on the east by the Gelderd Road to the road leading from Rakes to Birstal Town Street opposite Mr Gomersall’s gate on the north by that road and the south by Birstal Town Street to Coach and Horses.

Enumeration District: 3
Ref: HO 107/1290/7
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Geo Smith

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at Wm Farrer’s blacksmith shop bounded on the north by Birstal Town Street as far as Todd’s public house, on the west by Chandlers Hill to the road leading from Wm Kershaw’s to Low Lane at Buckley’s shop on the south by that road and Low Lane to the said blacksmith’s shop.

Enumeration District: 4
Ref: HO 107/1290/8
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Not recorded

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing in Coach Lane at the Birstal and Huddersfield Turnpike Road bounded on the north by Low Lane and the road leading from Buckley’s shop to Kerkshaw’s house on the west by the road leading from thence to Low Lane and the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road to the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road and on the south by that road to Township of Batley and the Township of Batley to Coach Lane.

Enumeration District: 5
Ref: HO 107/1290/8
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Benj Moore

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at Smithies bounded on the north by the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road as far as the footway leading from that road to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near Mr Taylor’s in Great Gomersal, on the west by that footway and the last mentioned Turnpike Road by Hill Top to the Township of Heckmondwike and on the south and east by the Townships of Heckmondwike and Batley to Smithies.

Enumeration District: 6
Ref: HO 107/1290/8
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Geo Parkinson

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road near the National School, bounded on the south by the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road, Chandlers Hill by the vicarage to Mr Gomersall’s gates to Rakes, on the east by Dark Lane, Owler Lane and Field Head Lane to the Township of Drighlington, on the north by the Township of Drighlington and the Leeds and Whitehall Turnpike Road to Birkenshaw Lane at the Toll Bar, on the west by Birkenshaw Lane.

Enumeration District: 7
Ref: HO 107/1290/9
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Not recorded

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at Mr Walker’s porters lodge at Moor Lane bounded on the east by Birkenshaw Lane to the Fleece Inn at Birkenshaw, on the north by the road leading from thence to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road, on the west by that road and on the south by the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road to Mr Walker’s porters lodge.

Enumeration District: 8
Ref: HO 107/1290/9
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John Steel

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the Toll Bar on the Leeds and Whitehall Turnpike Road bounded by that road on the south, by the Township of Drighlington, Tong and Hunsworth on the east and north and by the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road and the road leading from thence to Birkenshaw Lane near the Fleece Inn by Birkenshaw Lane to the said Toll bar.

Enumeration District: 9
Ref: HO 107/1290/9
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John Crowther

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road at the bottom of West Lane near Mr Sigston’s porters lodge, bounded by that Turnpike Road on the east in a direct line to the Township of Hunsworth, on the north and west by the last named Township to Brook Houses, on the south by Scrat Lane, Bawson Cliffe Lane and West lane to the said Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near Mr Sigston’s porters lodge including Latham.

Enumeration District: 10
Ref: HO 107/1290/10
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Not recorded

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the bottom of West Lane near Mr Sigston’s porters lodge bounded on the north by West Lane, Bawson Cliffe Lane and Scrat Lane to Brook Houses, on the west by the Township of Cleckheaton, on the south by the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road to Hill Top, on the east by the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road to the bottom of West Lane near Mr Sigston’s lodge.

Enumeration District: 11
Ref: HO 107/1290/10
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Benjn Ellis

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the junction of the Gomersal and Dewsbury and Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road bounded on the north by the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road to Mr Walker’s porters lodge and Birkenshaw Lane to the footpath leading from that lane to Oakwell, on the east by the footpath to the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road near Spaw Well, on the south by that Turnpike Road to Moor Lane and Moor Lane to the Holme Lane End to Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near...(rest of description missing)

Enumeration District: 12
Ref: HO 107/1290/10
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John Berry jnr

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road near Spaw Well, bounded on the south by the footpath leading from thence to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near Mr Taylors, on the west by the last mentioned Turnpike Road to Thornton’s public house, on the north by the Moor Lane to Mr Walker’s porters lodge and on the east by the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road to Spaw Well.

Enumeration District: 13
Ref: HO 107/1290/11
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Not recorded

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at Hill Top at the junction of the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike and Leeds and Elland Turnpike Roads bounded on the north by the last mentioned Turnpike Road to Nibshaw Lane, on the west and north by Nibshaw Lane and the road leading through Little Gomersal, on the south of Mr Rhodes and Mr Carr’s houses to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near the Bulls Head and on the east by...(rest of description missing)

Enumeration District: 14
Ref: HO 107/1290/11
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John Whitworth

Description of Enumeration District:
All that part of the Township of Gomersal commencing at Nibshaw Lane on the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road, bounded on the east by Nibshaw Lane and the road leading through Little Gomersal to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near the Bulls Head, then by the last mentioned Turnpike Road to the Township of Liversedge, on the south and west by the Townships of Liversedge and Cleckheaton and on the north by the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road to Nibshaw Lane including Castle.

Enumeration District: Not recorded
Ref: HO 107/1290/11
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Wm Hammond

Description of Enumeration District:
Gomersal Workhouse.