HARROWGATE is the name of a celebrated watering place in England, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is situated in the forest of Knaresborough, about three miles south-west of the town of Knaresborough. village is divided into High and Low Harrowgate, and consists prin cipally of the inns and lodging houses for the accommoda tion of the numerous invalids who flock hither from every part of the united kingdom. Before the mineral springs were discovered, Harrowgatc was a miser able hamlet ; and it was not till 1687 that the first inn, called the Queen's Head, was erected. Before the year 1760, there were three good inns in the village, and it now contains eight spacious inns, viz. the Granby, the Dragon, the Queen's Head, and the Hope Tavern, at High Harrowgatc ; and the Crown, the White Hart, the Crescent, and the B.11, at Low Har rowgate; beside numerous lodging houses for those who wish for a more retired life. The Crown Inn at Lower Harrowgatc, is a long row of plain buildings. The public hall or promenade is a large and elegant apartment, with an organ at one end. The Crescent is situated behind the Crown Inn in a less public situation.
The chalybeate springs, which are two in number, are both at High Harrowgate. The oldest of these, called the Old Spa, was discovered by Captain Slingsby in 1571, and is situated opposite the Granby Inn. It was covered in 1786 with an elegant dome, erected at the expense of Lord Loughborough, who also laid out an extensive plantation on his property here, which affords an agreeable shade to a walk eight feet broad, and two miles long. The other cha
lybeate spring is about half a mile west of the Old Spa, and is called the 'Pewit well, from the birds called tewits which frequent it.
The sulphureous springs, which are two in number, are situated at Lower Ilarrowgate, and are inclosed with stone buildings, one of which, near the Crown Inn, is a temple of the Tuscan order, 24 feet in diameter, consisting of a cu pola, supported by 12 columns. The water of this spring is extremely offensive to the smell and the taste. When taken in small quantities, it is an excellent alterative ; but when copiously drunk, it is strongly purgative, and has been found very efficacious in cutaneous diseases and scrophula, in destroying worms, in removing chronic obstructions, and in all disorders of the stomach. The second sulphureous spring was discovered in the gardens of the Crescent in 1783. It is of an intermediate quality between the chaly beate and sulphureous waters.
The buildings at Harrowgate are rapidly increasing every year. It now contains more than 1500 inhahitants. See Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xvi. p. 652.