HARDROW, a chapelry in the parish of AYSGARTH, western division of the wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of YORK, 18 miles (W. by N.) from Middleham. The population is returned with the township of High Abbot-side. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Lord Wharncliffe, who has recently endowed a school with £ 10. 10. per annum. Within the parish is a tremendous waterfall, called Hardrow Scarr, with immense masses of rock overhanging it on each side; during the severe frost in 1740, this cascade was entirely congealed into a stupendous cone of ice.