GILDERSOME, a chapelry in that part of the parish of BATLEY which is in the wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (S.W. byW.) from Leeds, containing 1592 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £ 1000 royal bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant. The chapel has lately received an addition of one hundred and forty-three free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. Bolton Hargrave, Esq., in 1749, bequeathed £ 10 a year for the education of children. Here is a scribbling-mill j and the manufacture of cotton is also carried on.