Todmorden, Calderdale

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Todmorden is a town in Calderdale

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Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Todmorden within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Todmorden in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Todmorden, manufacturing and market town, Rochdale and Whalley pars., Lancashire, and Halifax par., West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Calder and Rochdale Canal, 8¾ miles SE. of Burnley and 19 miles NE. of Manchester by rail, 15,690 ac., pop. 23,862; 2 Banks, 2 newspapers. Market-day, Saturday. Todmorden enjoys fine environs, being situated in a beautiful valley overhung all round by lofty hills. It has extensive cotton mills, foundries, and machine works. The chief public buildings are the churches and chapels, and the town hall.

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Todmorden and Walsden, township, Rochdale par., Lancashire, in town of Todmorden, 7007 ac., pop. 9237.

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