Gunthwaite

{{short description|Hamlet in South Yorkshire, England}}

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

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| official_name = Gunthwaite

| civil_parish = Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth

| country = England

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

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| post_town = SHEFFIELD

| postcode_area = S

| postcode_district = S36

| dial_code = 01226

| metropolitan_borough = Barnsley

| metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire

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Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the boundary of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The settlement can be traced back over 1,000 years.

File:Gunthwaite Barn - geograph.org.uk - 40761.jpg

Within the parish is located Gunthwaite Hall, former seat of the Bosville family. Its 16th century Grade I listed close-studded cruck barn is still in agricultural use and has been described as "one of the glories of the parish".Hey, David. A History of Penistone and District. Pen & Sword, 2002, p. 57. Also to be found nearby is Gunthwaite Spa, a sulphur-rich spring whose waters emerge from a pipe set in a stone recess by the side of Carr Lane. Here, the old practice of celebrating Spaw Sunday still survives to this day.

Gunthwaite was formerly a township in the parish of Penistone,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1060|title=History of Gunthwaite, in Barnsley and West Riding|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=13 June 2024}} in 1866 Gunthwaite became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1938 the parish was abolished and merged with Ingbirchworth to form "Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth".{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10429468|title=Relationships and changes Gunthwaite CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=13 June 2024}} In 1931 the parish had a population of 64.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10429468/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Gunthwaite CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=13 June 2024}}