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Some Gomersal Cottages

The history of Gomersal is neatly reflected in four of its buildings, two of them museums, two hostelries. In Elizabethan times Oakwell Hall was built, with a fine park around it reflecting the prosperity and power of the owners in the pre-industrial age, when farming would have dominated the local economy. This is now a museum and country park, the interior of the house set out in the style of the reign of William and Mary, as the owners, the Batts, would have seen it in 1690. At the other end of the social scale was the Old Saw pub, now moved from its original location, but with legends attaching to it that tell of priests hidden in the cellars, and a secret escape tunnel leading from the pub to the nearby Spen Hall, from a time when being of the wrong religion was potentially fatal.