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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.
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.
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.
For electoral purposes, Portsmouth was counted as part of parliamentary constituencies of Lancashire until 1917, and of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1918. [2] The village had a railway station, which was opened in 1849 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway. It was renamed by British Rail to Portsmouth (Lancs) and closed on 7 July 1958.
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.
Rochdale was an ecclesiastical parish of early-medieval origin in northern England, administered from the Church of St Chad, Rochdale.At its zenith, it occupied 58,620 acres (237 km 2) of land amongst the South Pennines, and straddled the historic county boundary between Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Walsden (/ ˈ w ɒ l z d ən /; WOLZ-dən) is a large village in the civil parish of Todmorden in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.. It was historically partially administered in Lancashire (the Walsden Water as tributary to the Calder serving as the county boundary), and close to the modern boundary with Greater Manchester.
Lord, the fourth child of ten children of Simeon Lord and Ann Fielden of Dobroyd (near Todmorden), Yorkshire, England, was born about 28 January 1771.On 22 April 1790, as a 19-year-old, he was convicted to 7 years transportation at the Manchester Quarter Sessions in Lancashire for the theft of 21 pieces of cloth, 100 yards (91 m) of calico and 100 yards (91 m) of muslin. [1]
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