LYDGATE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of ROCHDALE which is in the upper division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG, West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Oldham. The population is returned with Saddleworth. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and £2000 parliamentary grant. The neighbourhood of Lydgate abounds with establishments connected with the manufacture of cloth, for an account of which see SADDLEWORTH.