BARDEN, a chapelry in that part of the parish of SKIPTON which is in the eastern division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-and-EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 8 miles (N. E. by N.) from Skipton, containing 219 inhabitants. The interest of £170, being the amount of various benefactions, is appropriated to the instruction of children and the relief of the poor.