Welcome to Ossett.com | The Online Community Portal for Ossett. Ossett is a market town within Gods own county aka Yorkshire.  Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire,  Ossett appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Osleset", which was in the Manor of Wakefield.

Ossett cum Gawthorpe was a township in the ancient parish of Dewsbury, it became a civil parish in 1866, and was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Ossett in 1890. Under the Local Government Act 1972, it became an unparished area in the City of Wakefield and is home to the famous Ossett Martial Arts, Ossett Trinity Tigers, Ossett United, Ossett RUFC and Ossett Cricket Club.