District of Calderdale south of Todmorden on the road to Lancashire. A series of 4 locks here brings the Rochdale Canal down to pass beneath Gauxholme Viaduct.
The word may be derived from the elements gauk and holme meaning a flat, fertile, water meadow.
The spelling Gauksholme is found – Watson wrote of Gauksholm – until the 19th century. The change in spelling is attributed to a Mr Thurlow, a bookkeeper at the canal wharf around 1836.
Pronunciation: the word sound likes gorks-home with the stress on the first syllable
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