Ossett
Badge of Ossett town Image File history File links Ossett badge The three white roses represent the three ridings of Yorkshire. ...
Ossett shown within West Yorkshire
Population	20,988
OS grid reference	SE279205
Metropolitan borough	Wakefield Metropolitan District
Shire county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	OSSETT
Postcode district	WF5
Dialling code	01924
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Normanton
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

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Ossett [pronounced "Oss-it"] is an old industrial town in West Yorkshire, England on junction 40 of the M1 motorway. It is located in the Wakefield Metropolitan District, half-way between the towns of Dewsbury, to the west, and Wakefield, to the east. In the 2001 census, it was classified as part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area^[1]. The town is roughly half-way between the west and east coasts of England. Coat of Arms of South Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, that has a population of 2. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The M1 motorway heading south towards junction 37 at Barnsley, South Yorkshire. ... This article discusses the metropolitan district and named the City of Wakefield. ... Dewsbury is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, to the west of Wakefield, in the borough of Kirklees. ... For other uses, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ... The West Yorkshire Urban Area is a term used by the Office for National Statistics to refer to a conurbation in West Yorkshire, England, based mainly on Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield, but excluding Halifax which though part of the county of West Yorkshire is considered independently. ...

History

In the Second World War, Ossett was accidentally bombed on 16 September 1940^[2]. Ten High Explosive bombs were dropped. No one was killed, save for a number of chickens. Several properties were damaged. Also, a V-1's engine was reportedly heard to cut out, and came down at Grange Moor, to the west of the town. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Strategic bombing during World War II was greater in scale than any wartime attack the world had previously witnessed. ... is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... The V-1 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1) was the first guided missile used in war and the forerunner of todays cruise missile. ...

Ossett became incorporated as a municipal borough in 1890. Under the Local Government Act 1972, it became an unparished area in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield. A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... City of Wakefield is a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. ...

Naming

The township was formed as "Ossett-cum-Gawthorpe" in 1866 and was renamed as the shorter "Ossett" in 1890.

Ossett may be the most frequently misspelt town name in the country, being often spelt as "Osset". In Ellis' On Early English Pronunication, one of the founding works of British linguistics, the incorrect spelling is used.^[3] The bus station's electronic board opened with this spelling, and, as of May 2007, this has still not been altered.^{[citation needed]} The British Library has an online dialect study that uses the spelling.^[4] Publishers of Stan Barstow's books often spelt the name wrong when giving details of the author's background.^[5]. A local phrase is, "I'll Ossett there & Bus it back". For the journal, see Linguistics (journal). ...

The South African astronomer Cyril Jackson, who was born in Ossett, honoured the town when he named asteroid 1244 Deira; the citation he submitted to the IAU boils down to « Ancient name of Ossett, Yorkshire ». That is something of an exaggeration: the ancient Kingdom of Deira actually encompassed (at its height) most of modern Yorkshire. Cyril Jackson(1746—1819), dean of Christ Church, Oxford, was born in Yorkshire, and educated at Westminster and Oxford. ... For other uses, see Asteroid (disambiguation). ... IAU is a three-letter acronym that denotes: International Astronomical Union International American University International Association of Universities International Association of Ultra Runners for ultramarathoners. ... Deira (perhaps corresponding with the Brythonic kingdom of Ebrauc) was a kingdom in England during the 6th century AD. It later merged with the kingdom of Bernicia (Brythonic, Brynaich) to the north to form the kingdom of Northumbria. ... Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England. ...

Industry

Stan Barstow said that Ossett and Horbury were the "border country" where the north-west of the coalfield merged with the south-east of the wool towns. Local historian John Goodchild said, "The place was essentially one of small mines and small mills." Horbury is a large village, west of Wakefield and south of Ossett, in West Yorkshire. ...

The town was once a thriving centre of the "shoddy" industry; i.e. the recycling of woollen garments. Whilst some mill towns employed mostly females in its textile sector, Ossett's mills always had roughly equal numbers of men and women. The town's mills were generally small, but they had a reputation as high-quality producers. Whitehead's Mill used to have a float that said "We Export to the World" at the Gawthorpe May Pole parade.

There are still three operational textile mills in the town: Ings Mill, off Dale Street, now deals with recycled textiles; the Victoria mills off the Green, close to Ossett School, produce carpets; and "Edward Clay & Son Ltd" on Wesley Street manufactures felts for the mattress making and horticultural industries. Other have been converted into units: some of the most prominent being Royds Mill on the Leeds Road roundabout and the large congregation of mills in the Healey area. Some mills remain derelict, such as Healey New Mill with its large chimney. Ossett School & Sixth Form College is the only high school in Ossett, a town in the county of West Yorkshire, U.K.. Over the last five years, its results have improved significantly and it is now consistently top of the league tables for comprehensive schools in the Wakefield district. ...

Coal-mining was, up to the late '60s, Ossett's second industry in terms of people employed and the first in terms of males employed. There were a large number of pits around the turn of the century. After the Second World War, the main pits were "Old Roundwood", which closed in 1966, and "Savile & Shawcross", on the Ossett/Dewsbury border, which closed in 1968.

At the time of the UK miners' strike (1984-1985), the nearest pits were "Denby Grange" and "Bullcliffe Woods" - both being about 3 miles to the south. The latter was one of the pits threatened with closure and one of the few concessions won was the merger of the latter with the former; the combined pit finally closed in 1991. The town's badge features images of both mills and collieries. The miners strike of 1984-5 was a major piece of industrial action affecting the British coal industry. ...

Transport

The town once had four train stations: Chickenley Heath closed in 1911, Flushdyke closed in 1941, Ossett in 1964 and Ossett & Horbury in 1970. It is now the largest town in Yorkshire and one of the largest towns in Britain without a train station. The slight 'bump' on Station Road is the only remainder of Ossett Station. Railway sidings and yards are still to be found at the old Ossett & Horbury Station site, heading towards Huddersfield and Horbury Bridge. Queen Elizabeth II spent a night aboard the royal train there during her 1977 Silver Jubilee tour.

In 2004 a brand new bus station was opened in the town built by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (WYPTE) is the Passenger Transport Executive for the county of West Yorkshire, England. ...

Tourism

Ossett was, for a brief period in the 19th century, a spa town. Having been founded by a local mill owner, the waters were popular with those seeking relief from certain skin diseases, but it did not transform the town in the way that many other British spas did. The spa has now long since closed but the south-east of the town is still known as "Ossett Spa".

Churches

Holy Trinity Church, Ossett, viewed from Dale Street

There are seven Christian Churches in the town, each with their own particular identities and initiatives. Many of the leaders of these churches meet regularly to collaborate and support each other. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, the town had a reputation as a centre of religious Nonconformism^[6]. Although nonconformist churches were common across of West Yorkshire, Ossett was a particular hotbed. In 1890, seventeen different churches were recorded in Ossett [and it is likely that spiritualist churches were never recorded]. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 774 KB) Summary Photo I took myself of Holy Trinity Church, Ossett, Yorkshire as seen from Dale Street, across Ossett Park. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 774 KB) Summary Photo I took myself of Holy Trinity Church, Ossett, Yorkshire as seen from Dale Street, across Ossett Park. ... Non conformism is the term of KKK ...

Trinity Church is one of two Church of England churches in the town. The other is Christ Church, South Ossett. St Mary's Church on Chancery Road closed in 1999, and its parish was absorbed into Holy Trinity's. The Church of England logo since 1996. ...

St Ignatius Church is the only Roman Catholic Church in Ossett. The Salvation Army is now the only Christian church with its building in Gawthorpe, a variety of events take place on most days. The Salvation Army building also acts as a community centre providing dinners for senior citizens & two parent & toddler groups. There is also a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Ventnor Way, and a spiritualist church in the town centre. Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de Loyola (December 24, 1491 – July 31, 1556), was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ... Shield of The Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a Christian charity and church that is internally organized like a military service. ... Spiritualism is a religion in which contact with the spirits of the dead through a medium is central. ...

Facts and Figures

Ossett Town Centre, showing the Town Hall building

• At the 2001 census, the town's population was estimated at 20,988 residents plus an extra 88 in communal establishments^[7]. This may now be slightly higher due to continued expansion. Ossett's convenient proximity to the M1 motorway has led the old industrial town to become more affluent in recent years, attracting both industry and resident commuters to Leeds, following on from a period of economic decline that lasted almost three decades. The town now serves as the best example of gentrification in this part of Yorkshire.

• The Ossett accent was included as part of the English Accents and Dialects collection as a comparison with the recording from Thornhill from the Survey of English Dialects.

• Ossett has eight Primary Schools, however it now has only one High School, Ossett School. All of the primary schools in Ossett bear the town's name in the title as a mark of civic pride. The only two exceptions to this is Highfield School, which caters to those with learning disabilities; the building was the old North Ossett Comprehensive before its closure in 1997, and St. Ignatius Catholic Primary School.

• Ossett is the home of the Wakefield Wind Orchestra.

• The red phone booth in Ossett town centre, opposite the Kingsway roundabout, is a grade II listed building[1].

• House prices increased from around £50,000 in 1998 to around £130,000 in 2003 - one of the largest increases in the country^{[citation needed]}. This rise was noted at the time as being in line with price rises in West London and Cheshire^{[citation needed]}.

• Ossett is currently famous for its fish and chips and for its high stock of hairdressers.

• Ossett is home to two real ale breweries. Ossett Brewery, located just down the road from The Brewer's Pride pub in Healey is best known for Ossett Pale Gold and Excelsior (the latter a winner of several CAMRA awards) ; The Red Lion Brewery, at The Red Lion on Dewsbury Road is best known for its unusual Chardonnale. Both are available across the North of England and the breweries also produce several other beers.

• The Yorkshire and the Humber branch of the Disability Sports Federation has its headquarters on the Longlands Industrial Estate in the town.

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Events

Gawthorpe, an area of north Ossett, is known for its striking 'water tower' and also hosts the annual World Coal-Carrying Championships (Every Easter Monday) and an annual 'Maypole' parade on the first Saturday in May.

Ossett Gala is a well supported event taking place on the second Saturday in July. The turning on of the Christmas Lights (early December) is another focal point for the community, along with the Fire station's annual bonfire on the Friday evening nearest to the 5th November.

The Ossett Beer Festival takes place annually in the Brewers' Pride pub in the Healey area of Ossett.

Politics

Politically, Ossett has changed which constituency it is in several times. In 1983, a very unpopular decision transferred the town from the Dewsbury seat to the Normanton constituency. This is represented by Ed Balls, who was formerly chief economic adviser. The seat has been continually represented by Labour since 1885: longer than any other British constituency. At the next election, Ossett [and Horbury] shall be part of the Wakefield seat. Normanton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British politician, and Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Normanton. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... Wakefield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

In local elections, Ossett tends to be keenly contested between Labour and the LibDems. The British National Party reached a high of 18.5% in 2003. About a quarter of the town is included in the "Horbury and South Ossett" ward. The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, is a liberal political party in Great Britain formed in 1988 by the merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party; the two parties had already been in an alliance for seven years prior to this, since not long after... The British National Party (BNP) is a white nationalist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, a ward is an electoral area of a borough, city, council, county, district, parish, shire or town (Local Government Area). ...

Publications

Ossett's local paper is the Ossett Observer, which was founded in 1864. The Wakefield Express and the Dewsbury Reporter are also regularly stocked in local newsagents. The Wakefield Express also contains an Ossett and district section. Ossett also has its own free magazine The Ossett Review [2]that was established in July 2005. The Wakefield Express is the Newspaper serving for the District of Wakefield. ... A local weekly publication, providing news for residents of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, and surrounding areas. ... The Wakefield Express is the Newspaper serving for the District of Wakefield. ...

Sport

Despite being smaller than nearby Wakefield, Ossett hosts two semi-professional football teams, to Wakefield's one. Ossett Town play at Ingfield across from the bus station, and are in the Unibond Premier Division. Neighbours Ossett Albion make their home at Queen's Terrace, more commonly known as Dimplewells, and are one division below Town, in the Unibond First Division. History - Ossett Town Football Club Website (Unofficial: http://OssettTown. ... The Northern Premier League logo. ... Ossett Albion F.C. are an English football team who play in the Northern Premier League First Division. ... The Northern Premier League First Division is an football league covering the north of England. ...

Ossett Rugby Union Football Club [3] play at Spring Mill Playing Fields on Queen's Drive. Ossett Trinity, the local rugby league team, resigned from the Rugby League Conference in 2006. For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... The Rugby League Conference (RLC) (also known as the Co-operative Rugby League Conference as a result of sponsorship from United Co-operatives is a series of regionally based divisions of amateur rugby league teams spread throughout England, Scotland and Wales. ...

Ossett cricket club also play at Dimplewells. The Heavy Woollen District has its own cricket association and its own cricket team. Residents of Ossett are eligible to play for the Heavy Wollen District team. A woollen mill in Dewsbury, now converted to flats but retaining as a feature the mill name. ...

Famous Ossetters

• Novelist Stan Barstow, the author of A Kind of Loving, was born in Horbury, yet has lived almost all of his life in Ossett and attended Ossett Grammar School.
• Benjamin Ingham (1712-72) founder of the Inghamite Methodists was born in Ossett. He was educated at Batley Grammar School and Queen's College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1735 and accompanied John and Charles Wesley as a missionary to the colony of Georgia in the USA. In 1737, after his return to Ossett, Ingham started to establish the Inghamite Methodists after being banned in 1739 from preaching in churches. By 1755 there were over eighty Inghamite congregations, mainly in Yorkshire and Lancashire. A vestige of Ingham's Church still survives in the Lancashire/Yorkshire border area.
• Bobby Madley (Football Referee) was a member of the first team of English referees to officiate at the new Wembley Stadium. He was an assiatent referee to Premiership referee, Andy D'Urso for the England Under 16 v Spain Under 16 International Friendly.
• Eli Marsden Wilson, A.R.E., A.R.C.E. (1877-1965) was a successful Ossett-born artist who had seventeen pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy. After studying at Wakefield College of Art, he moved to the Royal College of Art in London where he became a pupil of Sir Frank Short. The first picture Wilson exhibited at the R.A. in 1905 was an etching of "Ossett Market" as it was in Victorian times. There is a copy of "Ossett Market" by E.M. Wilson on display in Wakefield Art Gallery.
• South African astronomer Cyril V. Jackson was born in Ossett.
• Software house Team17 are based there and their most famous game - "Worms" - contained a Hell level with a sign saying, "Welcome to Ossett".
• The crime novelist David Peace originates from Ossett and set the first six of his books in the West Riding. In Nineteen Seventy Four, Ed Dunford, the main character, lived at 10, Wesley Street in the town. There is also an insider joke where Ed tries to make up a fake name of a solicitors' firm to a policemen, and says "Edward Clay & Son Ltd." see above, which the policeman immediately deduce as false.
• Actress Helen Worth (Gail Platt From Coronation Street) was born and brought up in Ossett.
• Richard Wood (footballer). Defender with Sheffield Wednesday FC.
• Black Lace (band).
• The Cribs, an indie rock band consisting of 3 brothers who come from Netherton to the south of Ossett.
• Thomas Cussons (Chemist) first established the 'Cussons' personal care brand in Ossett. The initials of Thomas' eldest son John W. Cussons (1867-1922) can still be found on the wall of the original building, now the Yorkshire Bank on Station Road. Thomas' youngest son Alex T. Cussons (1875-1951) who was apprenticed in Ossett, went on to manufacture the famous Cussons Imperial Leather soap.

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Cultural references

• The town is mentioned in the song It's Grim Up North, and is one of the smallest towns to be mentioned in the song.^[8]
• "The Yorkshire Dictionary" defines Ossett as once being known as "wheeare the' black-leead t'tram lines", at a time when the town was seen as being dirty and generally having a worse reputation than it has today.
• In Austin Mitchell's Talkin' Yorkshire, it says on page 48, In moments of extreme anger Ossett Fish-puddlers have been known to resent "thou" and reply "Don't thee thou me thee thou thissen and see how tha likes thee thouing" but this is rare.

Austin Vernon Mitchell (born 19 September 1934[]) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in England. ...

Location Grid

Kirkhamgate (grid reference SE300224) is a small village, a few miles north-west of Wakefield, England. ... Dewsbury is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, to the west of Wakefield, in the borough of Kirklees. ... For other uses, see Wakefield (disambiguation). ... Horbury is a large village, west of Wakefield and south of Ossett, in West Yorkshire. ... Netherton is a small village in West Yorkshire. ...

See also

South Ossett As Ossett is such a large town it is divided into the north and south areas. ...

Ossett History

References

1. ^ UK 2001 Census - West Yorkshire Urban Area
2. ^ BBC Article
3. ^ Found on pages 62 and 365 in On Early English Pronunciation, Part V. The existing phonology of English dialects compared with that of West Saxon speech, London, Trübner and Co, 1889
4. ^ British Library English Accents and Dialects collection, "Osset, Wakefield"
5. ^ See, for example, the details about the author at the start of Joby, as published 1968 by Penguin
6. ^ Old Towns of England article on Dewsbury
7. ^ 2001 UK Census, Spreadsheet
8. ^ http://www.lyricsdownload.com/klf-its-grim-up-north-lyrics.html

• "Bygone Ossett" - Norman Ellis, Rickaro Books, November 2003, ISBN 0-9546439-0-9
• "Old Ordnance Survey Maps: Ossett 1890", Alan Godfrey Maps, ISBN 0-85054-237-5
• "The King's England: Yorkshire, West Riding", Arthur Mee