OSSETT  , a municipal

borough in the Morley parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 3 M . W. of Wakefield, on the Great Northern and (Horbury and Ossett station) the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways . Pop . (1901) 12,903 . It includes the contiguous townships of Ossett, South Ossett and Gawthorpe . The church of the Holy Trinity, a fine cruciform structure in the Early Decorated style, was erected in 1865 . Woollen cloth mills, and extensive collieries in the neighbourhood, employ the large industrial population . There are medicinal springs similar in their properties to those of Cheltenham . The municipal borough, incorporated in 189o, is under a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors . Area 3238 acres .