HARROGATE, or HARROWGATE, a small town and watering-place in the West Riding of Yorkshire, 20 miles W. of York. It is indebted for its rise and importance to its medicinal springs, and is now one of the principal watering-places in the north of England. It consists of two scattered villages, called High and Low Harrogate, situated about a mile from each other, and possessing ample accommodation for visitors. The season commences in May, and continues till September. The springs of Harrogate are both chalybeate and sulphureous. Of the former the oldest is Tewit Well, which was discovered about 1576. The Old Spa, situated on the Stray, was discovered by Dr Stanhope previously to 1631. The Starbeck chalybeate is about midway between Harrogate and Knaresborough. The Saline chalybeate at Low Harrogate was discovered in 1819. The sulphureous springs are the Old Sulphur Wells at Low Harrogate; the Crown Sulphur Well, in the pleasure grounds of the Crown Hotel; and the Knaresborough or Starbeck Spa, nearly halfway between Harrogate and Knaresborough. Harrogate possesses public baths; assembly rooms; reading rooms and libraries; mechanics' institute; and a bath hospital for poor invalids, with accommodation for about 100 patients. Pop. (1851) 3678.