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.

HARROW ON THE HILL, a village in the county of Middlesex, 10 miles N.W. of London. Harrow owes its celebrity to its free grammar school, founded in 1571 by John Lyon, a wealthy yeoman of this parish. The primary object of this school was the gratuitous instruction of boys belonging to the parish of Harrow, but it is now principally attended by sons of the nobility and gentry, and is in high repute as an educational institution. Among the celebrated men who have been educated here may be mentioned Sir William Jones, Dr Parr, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Byron, and Sir Robert Peel. The number of scholars in 1853 was about 390. It has four exhibitions of 50 guineas each to either university, and two of the same value, founded by the late Mr Sayer, to Caius College, Cambridge. On the summit of the hill on which the village stands is the parish church, surmounted by a tower and spire. Pop. (1851) 4951.