Gawber

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Gawber is an area of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.<ref name=OS110>Template:Cite map</ref><ref name=OSGaz50>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The area falls within the Darton West ward of the Barnsley MBC. There is a primary school, Gawber Primary School,<ref>Template:EduBase Department for Education, Retrieved 25 January 2017</ref> a preschool, Gawber Pre-School,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a church, St Thomas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The origin of the place-name is from the Old English words galga and beorg meaning gallows hill and appears as Galgbergh in 1304.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Gawber is noted for its collieries.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The North Gawber Colliery which closed in 1988 was located to the north in Mapplewell and the East Gawber Hall Colliery, of which the buried remains of the colliery fanhouse are a scheduled monument, was to the north-east of Gawber.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:NHLE</ref>

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