SOWERBY, a chapelry in the parish of HALIFAX, wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Halifax, containing, with Ramble, 6890 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefacti6n, £200 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Halifax. The chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, contains a fine statue, erected about half a century ago, to- the memory of John Tillotson, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, who was born at Haugh- End, his father having been a manufacturer, in 1630; he died in 1694. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. The manufacture of woollen and cotton goods is extensively carried on here. Paul Bairslow, in 171 lj bequeathed £16 per annum for the support of a school. In 1678, a considerable number of Roman coins was ploughed up in the neighbourhood.