SCAMMONDEN, a chapelry in the parish of HUDDERSFIELD, upper division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles (W.) from Huddersfield, containing, with Dean-Head, 855 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £ 440 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Huddersiield.