Gawber

{{short description|Area of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|53.5606|-1.5132|display=inline,title}}

| official_name = Gawber

| population =

| metropolitan_borough = Barnsley

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire

| post_town = BARNSLEY

| postcode_district = S75

| postcode_area = S

| dial_code = 01226

| os_grid_reference = SE323072

| constituency_westminster = Barnsley Central

}}

Gawber is an area of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 110 Sheffield & Huddersfield (Glossop & Holmfirth)|ISBN= 9780319231876 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2012}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html |title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer |format=csv (download) |date= 1 January 2016 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |accessdate=18 February 2016}} The area falls within the Darton West ward of the Barnsley MBC. There is a primary school, Gawber Primary School,{{EduBase|106603|Gawber Primary School}} Department for Education, Retrieved 25 January 2017 a preschool, Gawber Pre-School,{{cite web|url=https://fsd.barnsley.gov.uk/kb5/barnsley/fisd/service.page?id=XOSRJ-fKCvM|title=About Gawber Pre-school |publisher=Gawber Pre-School |accessdate=25 January 2017}} and a church, St Thomas.{{cite web|url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/gawber-st-thomas/ |title=St Thomas, Gawber |publisher=A Church Near You |accessdate=25 January 2017}}

The origin of the place-name is from the Old English words galga and beorg meaning gallows hill and appears as Galgbergh in 1304.{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|first1= A.D.|last1= Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press| location=Oxford| orig-year= first published 1991|date=2011|edition=First edition revised 2011|isbn=9780199609086|page=202}}

In A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) Gawber is noted for its collieries.{{cite book|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp164-168 |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |chapter=Barton, St Michael - Basing |editor=Samuel Lewis |publisher=S Lewis|location=London |year=1848 |pages=164–168 |via=British History Online |accessdate=25 January 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://harworthgroup.com/green-light-given-harworths-north-gawber-development/ |title=Green light given Harworth's North Gawber development |publisher=Harworth Group |accessdate=25 January 2017 }}{{NHLE|num=1017748|desc=East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm |access-date=25 January 2017}}