Kelly & Co. - Post Office Directory 1857.
Gomersal

Gomersal (Great and Little) are two villages and an ecclesiastical district in the parish of Birstall and township of Gomersal, 1 mile southwest from Birstall railway station, 4 northwest from Dewsbury, 6 south by easy from Bradford, in the Morley division of the West Riding, Dewsbury Union, Craven archdeaconry and Ripon bishopric, situated on the road from Bradford to Huddersfield.
The church of St. Mary is a handsome stone building in the pointed style of architecture, erected in 1851 at the cost of £3000; it has a nave, aisles, chancel and tower. The living is a perpetual curacy worth £150 yearly, with a new residence; it is in the alternate gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Ripon; the Rev. M.S. Daley, B.A., is the incumbent. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Wesleyan Reformers and Moravians.
There is a National school for boys and girls and there are Sunday schools held at the different places of worship. There are several coal mines in the township. The principal trades carried on here are worsted yarn manufacturers, chemical works, blanket manufacturers, cloth for the army and police, cotton spinners' machine makers and card makers.
A Mechanic's Institute has been erected here at a cost of £1800 and is used occasionally for lectures and public meetings. The Population in 1851 was 9926 and the acreage is 3119. The population of the ecclesiastical district is 3167. The soil is clay.
There are charities of £11 yearly value. The hamlets are: Birkenshaw (which is an ecclesiastical district with a population of 2324), Birkenshaw Bottom, Birstall, Drub. Field Head, Holden Cloyds, Latham, Moor Lane, Popeley Gate, Snutts and Spen.

Commercial listings by surname. Please note that there is a list of private residents prior to this entry and many of the names appear in this listing. Those that do not have been added with the fact they appear in the private resident list by the addition of PR in brackets after their name.

LG signifies Little Gomersal

ALLATT, William, boot & shoe maker
ALLOTT, James, grocer
ATKINSON, Edward, Spen (PR)

BALMFORTH, Mrs Ellen, beer retailer, LG
BARKER, Son & BROOK, blanket manfrs, Butts Mill
BARKER, Charles (PR)
BENTLEY, George, sizing boiler
BERRY, George, linen draper
BERRY, George, beer retailer, LG
BERRY, John, maltster
BERRY, Robert, butcher
BERRY, Thomas, blacksmith
BERRY, William, linen draper
BILTON, Edward, plumber
BIRKLEY, William (PR)
BLACKBURN, George & James, army & police clothing & other cloth manfrs., LG
BLACKBURN, Abraham, woollen manu.
BLACKBURN, George, grocer & postmaster
BLACKBURN, Joseph, woolen manu., LG
BLAMIRES, Stephen, tailor, LG
BOOTH, James, surgeon
BOWDEN, Edward, Peaccock Inn
BROADBENT, J.E., Round Hill (PR)
BROADBENT, James, Bosancliffe (PR)
BROADBENT, James, cotton spinner
BROADBENT, John & James, card makers
BROADBENT, Thomas & Benjamin, worsted spinners
BROOK, Joseph (PR)
BROOK, Samuel, joiner
BROOKE, Benjamin, tailor
BROOKE, Samuel, grocer
BROOKE, Thomas, grocer
BRUNELL, William, grocer
BURNLEY, James (PR)
BURNLEY, Thomas, worsted manu.
BURROWS, Josiah & Son, farmers & maltsters, LG

CARR, Charles & William, solicitors
CARR, Henry, surgeon
CARR, William, surgeon
CAWTHORN, William, boot & shoe maker
CHADWICK, William, boot & shoe maker, LG
CLAYTON, Mrs Mary, Bull's Head, LG
CRABTREE, Abraham, woolen manu.
CROWTHER & KNOWLES, scribbling millers
CROWTHER, William & Son, manufacturing chemists, LG
CROWTHER, Joseph, rope & twine manu.
CROWTHER, Joseph, woollen manu.

DALEY, Rev. Michael S, B.A., incumbent (PR)
DRAKE, John, farmer
DYSON, John, cap manu.

ELLIS, Benjamin, linen draper
ELLISON, Joseph, joiner

FARNELL, George, grocer, LG
FARRAND, Joseph, saddler, LG
FEARNLEY, Benjamin, army cloth manu.
FIRTH & BLACKBURN, corn millers, Spen Mill
FIRTHS & Co., scribbling millers, LG
FLEMING, William, boot & shoe maker

GOMERSALL, Thomas, woolstapler
GRAHAM, Richard, blacksmith, LG
GREAVES, Thomas, rope & twine manu.
GREENWOOD, Joseph, joiner, LG

HAIGH, George, butcher & grocer
HAMMOND, George, blacksmith, LG
HAMMOND, William, army & police clothing, pilots & other cloth manu., LG
HARDHILL, Thomas, Saw Inn, Spen
HARRISON, John & William, coal owners
HARTLEY, John, cloth manu.
HEATON, George, stone mason
HEATON, James, joiner & rag & shoddy dealer
HIRD, Robert, saddler
HIRST & Son, tailors
HIRST, Mrs (PR)
HIRST, Richard, joiner
HIRST, Thomas, boot & shoe maker
HUNTER, Mrs Mary, linen draper

ILLINGWORTH, George, joiner

JACKSON, John, coal owner
JACKSON, Mrs Martha, coal owner
JESSOP, John, grocer

KERSHAW & Sons, stone masons
KERSHAW, Joseph, boot & shoe maker, LG
KERSHAW, William, manu. of army & other cloths & cloth merchant, Lanefield House, LG
KING, Mrs Ann, grocer
KNOWLES, HOUGHTON & Co., woollen machine makers, LG
KNOWLES, James (PR)
KNOWLES, L & S.H., army cloth merchants
KNOWLES, Lionel, merchant
KNOWLES, Miss Ann (PR)

LAING, Joseph, butcher
LANG, Rev. James, Moravian, LG
LONGBOTTOM, Benjamin, grocer

MANN, William & Henry, maltsters & starch manfrs., Spen
MICKLETHWAITE, Benjamin, surgeon
MILNER, Joseph woollen manu., Spen
MITCHELL & GREENWOOD, farmers, LG

NEWSOME, George, plumber
NEWSOME, John, wine & spirit merchant, LG
NICHOLSON, George, grocer
NORTH, William, butcher

OATES, George, painter

PARKIN, William, chemist & druggist
PEARSON, John, cloth manu.
PICKERSGILL, Samuel, registrar of births & deaths for Gomersal district
PORRITT, George, linen draper
PRESTON, John, cloth manu.
PYRAH, William K., woollen manu.

RHODES, William, coal owner
RHODES, William, LG (PR)
ROBERTS, Henry & Son, worsted spinners & manfrs., LG
ROBERTS, Mrs (PR)
ROSS, Joshua, blacksmith, LG

SCALES, William, boarding school, Field Head
SCOTT, J & J, woolstaplers
SCOTT, John, woolstapler
SCOTT, Samuel, worsted manu.
SEED, Jonas, farmer, LG
SHIERS, John, grocer, LG
SMITH, John & William, rope & twine manfrs.
SMITH, Joseph, tailor, LG
SMITH, Mrs Sarah, grocer, LG
STANDISH, Robert, tailor
STEEL, Mrs Lydia, Shoulder of Mutton Inn
SWAINE, Joseph (PR)
SYKES, John, White Horse Inn

TAYLOR, James, woollen manu.
TAYLOR, John, cloth manu.
TAYLOR, John, woollen manu.
TAYLOR, Joseph, beer retailer
TAYLOR, Joshua, cloth merchant, LG
TAYLOR, Miss (PR)
THOMPSON, John, farmer, LG
THOMPSON, Mrs (PR)

WADSWORTH, Godfrey B, surgeon
WALKER, Benjamin, flock merchant
WALKER, Joseph, grocer
WALKER, Richard, grocer
WALKER, Robert, cloth manu.
WALKER, Thomas, grocer
WALKER, William, beer retailer & Carrier
WALKER, William, stone mason
WEST, Joseph, grocer & plumber, LG
WIGGLESWORTH, Titus, farmer
WILLIAMS, Martin, butcher
WILSON, Abraham, tailor
WILSON, James, coal owner
WOODHEAD, Joseph & Sons, woolstaplers
WOODHEAD, James, flock dealer
WRIGHT, John, woollen manu.
WRIGHT, Miss, Spen (PR)

Additional information:
Post office - George Blackburn, postmaster. Letters from Leeds arrive at 7am and 2.45pm; dispatched at 7.30am, 3pm and 7pm. The nearest money order office is at Birstall.