LUDDENDEN, a chapelry in the parish of HALIFAX,
wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county
of YORK, 3 miles (w. by N.) from Halifax, with which
the population is returned. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed
with £400 private benefaction, £ 600 royal
bounty, and £1800 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Halifax. There is a place of
worship for Wesleyan Methodists.