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Todmorden (/ ˈ t ɒ d m ər d ən / TOD-mər-dən; locally / ˈ t ɒ d m ɔːr d ən, ˈ t ɒ d m ər d ən, ˈ t ɔː m d ɪ n /) [1] [2] is a market town and civil parish [3] in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is 17 miles (27 kilometres) north-east of Manchester, 8 miles (13 km) south-east of Burnley and 9 ...
Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent. Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country. The county did not exist in 1086, for the Domesday Book, and was apparently first created in 1182, [1] making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties.
The war over, Lancashire never regained its markets. The independent mills were struggling. The Bank of England set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 to attempt to rationalise and save the industry. [4] Mons Mill, Todmorden was one of 104 mills bought by the LCC, and one of the 53 mills that survived beyond 1950.
The West Riding was first recorded (in the form West Treding) in the Domesday Book of 1086. [ 3 ] Unlike most English counties, Yorkshire, being so large, was divided first into the three ridings ( East , North and West) and, later, the city of York (which lay within the city walls and was not part of any riding).
From a very early stage in its history, Rochdale consisted of five divisions or townships: in the Lancashire part of the parish was Butterworth, Castleton (in which stood the parish church), Hundersfield and Spotland; Saddleworth, for ecclesiastical purposes, was a part of Rochdale, but lay entirely in Yorkshire and otherwise had only a "very slight" connection to the parish. [3]
Portsmouth is a village on the A646 road, in the civil parish of Todmorden, in the Calderdale district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Nearby settlements include the towns of Burnley and Todmorden and the village of Cornholme.
Dobroyd Castle, viewed from the north. Dobroyd Castle is an important historic building above the town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England. [1] It was built for John Fielden, local mill owner and son of Honest John Fielden the Social Reformer and MP.
[1] For a while it was possible to dance in the main hall, forward and back, across two counties of England. [7] However, the administrative border between Yorkshire and Lancashire was altered by the Local Government Act 1888 placing the whole of the town within the West Riding. [8] The Fielden family donated the building to the town on 6 ...