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Todmorden Town Hall Todmorden Town Hall interior. Todmorden Town Hall, which was designed in the Neo-Classical style, dominates the centre of the town. The building straddles the Walsden Water, a tributary of the River Calder, and was situated in both Lancashire and Yorkshire until the administrative county boundary was moved on 1 January 1888.
Todmorden Town Hall interior In the mid-19th century Todmorden experienced significant population growth associated with the increasing number of cotton mills in the town. In this context, in the early 1860s, the local board of health decided to procure a town hall: the site they selected straddled the Walsden Water, a tributary of the River ...
This list contains the listed buildings in the town centre and those near the main roads leading from the centre, namely Burnley Road to the northwest, Halifax Road to the northeast, and Rochdale Road to the south, as far as its junction with Bacup Road. The listed buildings in the outer areas are in Listed buildings in Todmorden (outer areas).
This is a list of towns in England.. Historically, towns were any settlement with a charter, including market towns and ancient boroughs.The process of incorporation was reformed in 1835 and many more places received borough charters, whilst others were lost.
Todmorden is a market town and civil parish, [2] within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Upper Calder Valley and has a total population of 14,941. [ 3 ]
The area comprising Stansfield extends from Stansfield Moor in the Pennines to the banks of the River Calder in Todmorden. [2] Historically, the township of Stansfield was considered within the manor of Wakefield which was granted, after the Norman Conquest, to William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. The earl then granted the manor of ...
The Local Government Act 1888 included the entirety of Todmorden with the West Riding administrative county, and also in its lieutenancy area ("county"), though the postal address for Todmorden was Lancashire.
The Upper Calder Valley lies in West Yorkshire, in northern England, and covers the towns of Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Luddendenfoot, and Sowerby Bridge, as well as a number of smaller settlements such as Portsmouth, Cornholme, Walsden, and Eastwood. The valley is the upper valley of the River Calder.