On transferring to the Normanton constituency, the MP for many years was Bill O'Brien until he entered the House of Lords and was succeeded by Ed Balls. The Domesday Book was compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086. No one was killed, save for a number of chickens and several properties were damaged. At the 2011 Census, the population was 21,231. The Salvation Army is the only church in Gawthorpe. The railways arrived in Ossett in 1862 when the Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway company opened a branch line to Flushdyke. Most of the town is in the Ossett ward on the local council, but the south-eastern part of the town is in the Horbury and South Ossett ward. In the 1870s, a plan to transform Ossett into a "second Harrogate" ended in failure, and the spa closed as a result. Vincent Norman Wilson (1885–1974) ran a successful small business, V.N. Streetside Post Office is a reminder of the Roman origins of the road. Ossett has one mainstream secondary school, Ossett Academy & Sixth Form College, and then has The Grange School, which is an independent special school and Highfield School which caters for children aged 11 to 16 who have learning difficulties, using the buildings of the old North Ossett High School which closed in 1997.[22]. In 1983, the town transferred from the Dewsbury seat to the Normanton constituency. Ossett Rugby[25] are based at Ossett Cricket and Athletic Club and play at Southdale playing fields with two men’s and one senior ladies team. Ossett railway station, located roughly where Southdale Gardens now is, was opened in 1889 by the Great Northern Railway. Ossett experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) similar to almost all of the United Kingdom. The Ossett Beer Festival takes place annually at the Brewers' Pride pub, Healey Road, Ossett over the August bank holiday weekend. Ossett - 10 Kirklees & Wakefield Kirklees is now in lockdown Heckmondwike North - 20 … Ossett has changed its parliamentary constituency several times. In Britain, we only get population figures at this level from the Census, which only takes place every 10 years. The district includes the ‘Five Towns’ of Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley. However, tabulated area figures refer to (typically smaller) actual built-up areas in order to present a more realistic population density. The stretch from junction 38 to 40 was opened in October 1968. There is also a very small area around the Waggon and Horses pub on Wakefield Road that has a WF5 Ossett address but is part of the Kirklees district and the Dewsbury East ward. St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church was built in 1878. The population development of Ossett as well as related information and services (weather, Wikipedia, Google, images). [18] Other clubs in Ossett include Ossett Wanderers, Ossett United and Ossett Panthers. The M1 motorway between Junctions 40 and 42 to the east of Ossett was opened in April 1967. Ossett has a free magazine The Ossett Review[28] established in July 2005. Portia da Costa (Wendy Wootton), erotic novelist, grew up and currently lives in Ossett. As of 29 October 2019, the ward is represented by two Conservative councillors and one Labour councillor. Source: UK Office for National Statistics (web). Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is halfway between Dewsbury, to the west, and Wakefield, to the east. Arson in particular inflicted significant damage, leaving the buildings' roof black and charred. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ossett&oldid=197046293, „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“. The town was once a thriving centre of the "shoddy" industry; recycling woollen garments. Ossett Beercart takes place on the first weekend of June. In June 2009, the Association of Train Operating Companies proposed Ossett, as one of seven English towns with a strong business case for the location of a new railway station. His mother was Sarah, née Ingham, the daughter of Gervase Ingham, a member of a well known land-owning Ossett family. The population development of Ossett as well as related information and services (weather, Wikipedia, Google, images). An exceedingly rare clustering of high status Anglian graves, one bearing the Anglian royal symbol of the dragon and the name Osbehrt, was found in the churchyard at Thornhill Parish Church directly across the valley from – and within sight of – Ossett.