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Medieval Todmorden had consisted of the townships of Langfield and Stansfield in Yorkshire, and Todmorden/Walsden section of the greater township of Hundersfield in the Ancient Parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. The township of Todmorden and Walsden was created in 1801 by the union of the older villages of Todmorden and Walsden.
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.
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.
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 August ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... This is a list of places within the historic county of Lancashire, England. It lists places within ...
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.
Todmorden is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It contains over 300 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eleven are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at ...