SLAITHWAITE, a chapelry in the parish of
HUDDERSFIELD, upper division of the wapentake of
AGBRIGG, West riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles
(W. S. W.) from Huddersfield, containing 2871 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £ 200 private
benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patron,-
age of the Vicar of Huddersfield. The chapel, rebuilt
in 1784, will accommodate upwards of one thousand
five hundred persons. The canal, and the new line
of road from Huddersfield to Manchester, pass through
this place. The manufacture of woollen and cotton
goods is carried on to a great extent, and the prosperity
of the village is likely to be promoted by the recent
discovery of an excellent spa, thought to be equal
in its chalybeate properties to the springs at Harrogate.
A free school was founded and endowed here, in 1721,
by the Rev. Robert Meek; the income, with subsequent
benefactions, amounts to £42 per annum, for which
twenty boys are instructed.