SLAITHWAITE, a village of England, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the valley of the Colne, 5 miles W.S.W. of Huddersfield. It contains a large but plain church with a tower, a national and a free school, woollen and cotton mills, and quarries of freestone in the vicinity. Here too are mineral-springs, closely resembling those of Harrowgate. In connection with them, baths and lodging-houses have been erected, and fine gardens and pleasure-grounds laid out. Slaithwaite forms a station of the Leeds and Manchester railway. Pop. 2552.