Todmorden

Todmorden is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, southwest of Hebden Bridge. It is part of Calderdale local council. Before the 1974 reorganisation of local government, the town had originally been in Lancashire.

Famous people from Todmorden

• John Fielden (1784-1849), local landowner and national leader of the Ten Hours Campaign for factory reform
• John Cockcroft who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951
• Geoffrey Wilkinson, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973
• Harold Shipman, the serial killer had his first medical practice in Todmorden
• John A Helliwell of the band Supertramp
• Wilfred Judson (1902-1980), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada