What is "gunthwaite"

Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth and on the boundary of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 400, increasing to 460 at the 2011 Census.

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

Notable places within Gunthwaite include Gunthwaite Hall, with its 16th century Grade I listed close-studded cruck barn, still in agricultural use, and Gunthwaite Spa, a sulphur-rich spring whose waters emerge from a pipe set in a recess by the side of Carr Lane.