Gomersal

1881 Census - Gomersal District (including Birstall and Birkenshaw). Descriptions and addresses associated within Enumeration Districts for this area.

The 1881 census for the Gomersal district contains 17 enumeration districts.

This project has not yet started but enumeration districts that have been fully transcribed will appear below in due course.

Enumeration District No: 1
Ref: RG11/4550
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Not available
Description of Enumeration District:
Not available

Enumeration District No: 2
Ref: RG11/4550
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: G W Burrell

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Coach & Horses Inn bounded on the east and north by the centre of Gelderd Road to Raikes and the centre of the road leading from Raikes called Raikes Lane to High Street opposite Mr Robert Rayners gates, and on the west and south by the centre of High Street to the Coach & Horses Inn, including Coach & Horses Inn, Gelderd Road (north side), houses at Top of Birstal (south side), houses leading from Mr Robert Rayners gates in High Street (east side), High Street (east side) to Coach & Horses Inn.

Enumeration District No: 3
Ref: RG11/4550
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: William Walker

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Low Lane near Mr William Farrar's blacksmiths shop bounded on the east by the centre of High Street as far as William Scott's house and shop in the Market Place, on the north and west by the centre of the road leading from Market Place to Joseph Micklethwaite house & shop and from thence to Thomas Blackburn shop and by the centre of Low Lane to William Farrar's blacksmiths shop, including all the houses on High Street to William Scott's west side, south side of Market Place, Joseph Micklethwaite house & shop and all the houses to Thomas Blackburn's shop & east side of Cobbles Hill, Low Lane and east side from Blackburn's shop to Farrar's shop.

Enumeration District No: 4
Ref: RG11/4550
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John William Buttery

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at New Inn bounded on the east by the centre of High Street to and including White Bear Inn, on the north and west by Church Street, Chandler Hill and the road leading from Benjamin Lees at Cross Street to Joseph Micklethwaite's shop and on the south by the centre of the road leading from Micklethwaite's shop to the Market Place and the New Inn, including New Inn, High Street (west side), Chandler Hill (south side), Quarry & Market Place (north side).

Enumeration District No: 5
Ref: RG11/4550
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: J P Illingworth

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Coach Lane at the Huddersfield Turnpike Road, bounded on the east & north by the centre of Low Lane as far as the footpath crossing from the said Low Lane to the Dewsbury Turnpike Road & on the west by the centre of the said Turnpike Road to the Batley township at Smithies & on the south by the township of Batley to Coach Lane, including all the houses from Mrs Sands to Joseph Lindley's to Police Station, the Railway Inn & all the houses in Huddersfield Road (both sides) except Lawrenson's to & including George Bentley's house & cottages.

Enumeration District No: 6
Ref: RG11/4550
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Henry Firth

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at the footpath from Low Lane to the Dewsbury Turnpike Road, bounded on the east and north by the centre of the road leading along Middlegate and Cross Street from Thomas Blackburn's shop to Benjamin Lees house and the road leading from thence to Low Lane and the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road to the Gomersal & Dewsbury Turnpike Road and on the west by the centre of that road to the centre of the above named footpath near the Police Station, Birstall.

Enumeration District No: 7
Ref: RG11/4551
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: James Martin

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Smithies bounded on the south by Batley township to the Gomersal Ecclesiastical District near the junction of Batley & Heckmondwike townships and thence by the south western angle side of Popeley House across Craven Lane to the Leeds and Elland Turnpike Road, on the west of Thomas Thornton's house and from thence along the boundary of the Gomersal Ecclesiastical District by Monk Ing and other closes to Far Scotland Close taking in Scotland Inn and houses near there on the Gomersal & Dewsbury Turnpike Road and thence by that road to Smithies, including all the houses at Smithies, Rydings Terrace, Kellett and Walkers houses at White Lee Bar House & Berry's houses behind Muffitt Lane (both sides) Brier Hall, Popeley House, Popeley Gate, Craven Terrace, Church Lane, Garfitt Hill, Birstal Church and the houses on the Dewsbury & Gomersal Turnpike Road (west side).

Enumeration District No: 8
Ref: RG11/4551
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John Glover Kyme

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at the Gomersal & Dewsbury Turnpike Road near the National School bounded on the south by the Leeds & Elland Turnpike Road, Chandler Hill, Church Street by the vicarage to Mr Robert Rayner's gates & the road leading from Mr Rayner's gates on Rakes Lane to Rakes on the east by Dark Lane, Owler Lane & Fieldhead Lane to the township of Drighlington to Warren ...? and down the centre of Warrens Lane, and along the stream passing through Oakwell Wood to Nutters Lane, taking in Ray & Olivers two houses & Preston's houses, and thence to Far Scotland Close & on the west by the Dewsbury & Gomersal Turnpike Road to the National School, including the houses from the National School, Lane End, north side of vicarage, New Hall, houses at Top of Birstal Mount, Rakes Lane (north side) to Dark Lane, Owler Lane, Fieldhead Lane (west side), station house, gate keeper's houses, Oakwell Hall, Oakwell House, Nova cottages (both sides) of Fieldhead Lane & houses by John Smith, New Road Side.

Enumeration District No: 9
Ref: RG11/4551
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Charles Brown

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing on the west side of Thomas Thornton's house in the Leeds & Elland Road bounded by the centre of that road on the south by the centre of Holme Lane End & Heckmondwike Turnpike Road on the west by the centre of Moor Lane on the north and down the middle of Nutters Lane to the beck and from thence to the Far Scotland Close and by Monk Ings and other closes to the west side of the said Thos Thornton's house, including houses in Church Lane, north side, Hill Top (east side) houses down Great Gomersal (east side), Shoulder of Mutton, Whimmey Street, Moor Lane (south side), Nutters Lane (south side), Gas? House, Collett and Street Houses (late Wards) on New Road Side.

Enumeration District No: 10
Ref: RG11/4551
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: W L Berry

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing on the west side of Thomas Thornton's house in the Leeds & Elland Turnpike Road, bounded on the north by the centre of that road to Nibshaw Lane and the centre of the road leading through Little Gomersal to the Holme Lane End & Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near the Bull's Head Inn, and on the east by the centre of that road and Craven Lane and across a close of land called Lower Bank Close to the said Thomas Thornton's house including houses at south side of Hill Top, Butts Mill & cottages, Marsh House, Nibshaw Lane (east side), road leading through Little Gomersal (north side) to Turnpike Road, west side of that road to Craven Lane including all the houses in Bank Field.

Enumeration District No: 11
Ref: RG11/4551
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Hartley Harrison

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Nibshaw Lane bounded on the north by the Leeds & Elland Turnpike Road to the boundary of the Ecclesiastical District of St. John's, Cleckheaton on the east side of Spen Hall and thence in a direct line to Little Gomersal Lane, where the rivulet crosses that lane and along that rivulet to the Liversedge boundary and then bounded on the west and south by Liversedge and Heckmondwike townships, and on the east by Nibshaw Lane and the centre of the road leading through Little Gomersal to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near the Bull's Head Inn, then by that road and Craven Lane to the west angle of Popeley House and from thence to the Heckmondwike township, excluding the whole of Lower Spen, except 3 houses (Dove, Haley & Mortimer's) on the south side of the before mentioned rivulet, including Upper Spen (south side) (Dove, Haley & Mortimer's), Little Gomersal Lane, Mount Pleasant, Walsh Houses, houses in Gomersal township by Cleckheaton old gas house, called Paddock Buildings, Nelroyd, Green Bank, Nibshaw Lane (west side), road leading through Little Gomersal (south side) Low Lane (south side) to Turnpike Road (east side) & Popeley Fields, Little Gomersal, Union mill, Quarry mill, California, Castle House Hill, Listing Lane mill and cottages and houses in Listing Lane (both sides) to and including Bull's Head Inn, Sam Blackburn cottages and all the houses on the east side of Heckmondwike Turnpike Road and all the houses on the south side of Craven Lane to the boundary.

Enumeration District No: 12
Ref: RG11/4552
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Matthew Currie

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Hill Top and bounded on the south by the centre of the Leeds & Elland Turnpike Road to the boundary of Ecclesiastical District of St. Johns, Cleckheaton on the east side of Spen Hall and thence in a direct line to Little Gomersal Lane, where the rivulet crosses that lane and along that rivulet to the Liversedge boundary and then bounded on the west by the townships of Cleckheaton and Hunsworth and then in a direct line to Scratt Lane on west side of Upper Brook Houses and then bounded on the north by the centre of Scratt Lane and on Bawson Cliffe Lane and West Lane to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near to Mrs Booth's porters lodge and bounded on the east by the centre of that road to Hill Top, including Hill Top (north side), Cloth Hall, Spen Lane (north side), Parsonage, Spen Hall, Lower Spen, Brookhouses, Egypt, Roundhill, Mrs Hirst two houses in West Lane, Croft House, Birdacre, Pollard Hall, Hill Top (west side). The part of St. John's District included in the Enumerator's ...? is the western portion thereof and ...? 35 houses ...? (bottom of page damaged and creased)

Enumeration District No: 13
Ref: RG11/4552
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Arthur Sutton

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Mrs Booth's porter lodge bounded on the east by the centre of the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road and the centre of Moor Lane to the Gomersal and Dewsbury Turnpike Road, on the north by the centre of that road on the north side of and including Mr Cooke's and Miss Swaine's dwelling houses to Latham Lane and along the centre of that lane to a point 100 yards south of Drub Lane and thence westerly to the township of Hunsworth (excluding Drub Lane, Drub & Maizebrook) on the west by the township of Hunsworth to Scratt Lane and on the south by the centre of Scratt Lane, Bawsoncliffe Lane and West Lane to Mrs Booth's porters lodge, including Gomersal Hall, Moor Lane (north side), Low House, Follingworth House, Tendlands House, West House, Upper Lane east side, Latham, Owlet Hall, Woodnook, Swinley, the late Titus Wigglesworth's houses, Upper Brook Houses, Throstle Nest, Bawson Cliffe House, Godfrey Walker's houses and Chapel House at West Lane Wesleyan Chapel.

Enumeration District No: 14
Ref: RG11/4552
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Joseph Crowther

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at the junction of the Gomersal and Dewsbury and Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Roads near Mr Abraham Peel's Peacock Inn and proceeding on the north of and excluding Mr Cook's  Miss Swaine's dwelling houses to Latham Lane along the centre of that lane to about 100 yards south of Drub Lane and thence to the township of Hunsworth including Drub Lane, Drub & Maizbrook and thence by the boundary of Hunsworth township on the west side and north to the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road near Kershaw's old stone quarry and bounded on the east by the centre of that Turnpike Road to the said Abraham Peel's Peacock Inn, including the houses at Latham west side, houses in Drub Lane, Drub & Maizbrook, all the houses at Gomersal Field Head Lane, Hallidays, Geo Woodcocks to Field Head, Mrs Ackroyds new house, Furnace Hill, Birkenshaw, all the houses on the Holme Lane End side, west side ???? Street, Low Fold, Parsonage, Swincliffe and Abraham Peel's Peacock Inn.

Enumeration District No: 15
Ref: RG11/4552
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: John Whittall 

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at Moor Lane at Mr Ackroyd's porter lodge bounded on the south west & west by the centre of the Gomersal & Dewsbury and Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Roads to Hodgson Lane at the Drighlington township, on the east by the Drighlington township and the centre of Warren Lane through Oakwell Far Wood and along the stream to Nutters Lane and on the south by the centre of Nutters Lane to the said Mr Ackroyd's porter lodge, including Moor Lane House, Wheatleys, John Holdsworth house, Saml Kershaw houses on the road side, Myrtle Grove beer shop & cottages, Bottoms, Throstle Nest at Bottoms, Sunny Bank houses, Waspnest, Highlands, Nutters Lane north side & Brecks Farm.

Enumeration District No: 16
Ref: RG11/4552
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Abraham Clarkson

Description of Enumeration District:
Part of the township of Gomersal commencing at the Halfway House Inn bounded on the west by the Holme Lane End & Heckmond(wike) Road to Nelson Kershaw's butchers shop at Birkenshaw and on the north by the centre of the road leading to the corner of Mr Wm Oddy's house on the east by road leading from Mr Wm Oddy's to the Toll Bar on the Leeds and Whitehall Road and on the south by the centre of that Turnpike Road to the Halfway House Inn, including the Halfway House Inn & cottages behind to Birkenshaw Church Schools, Temperance Field new houses, California otherwise Croft Street, Bireknshaw Lane, Mr Wm Oddy's, Emmets house, Wm Priestley's houses, Tetley's beer house and the houses behind and thence to the Halfway House Inn.

Enumeration District No: 17
Ref: RG11/4552
Superintendent Registrar’s District: Dewsbury
Registrar’s Sub-District: Gomersal
Name of Enumerator: Hartley Scott

Description of Enumeration District:
All that remaining part of the township of Gomersal commencing at the George & Fourth Inn and bounded on the west by the Holme Lane End and Heckmondwike Turnpike Road to the township of Hunsworth near Kershaw Old stone quarry on the north and east by the townships of Hunsworth, Tong & Drighlington and on the south by the centre of the Leeds and Whitehall Road to the lane called Birkenshaw Lane opposite the Toll Bar house and on the west by the centre of that lane to Tong Lane and on the south by the centre of Tong Lane and road leading to the George & Fourth Inn, including George & Fourth Inn, all houses on the Holme Lane End Road east side, Wellington Street, Chapel Street, Ellisons Mill yard, houses at Tong Moor Side, Hodgson Lane, Birkhill, Windy Bank, houses in Birkenshaw Lane and east side Tong Lane up to but excluding all the houses on the north side of the road from Tong to George the Fourth Inn.