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.

Location and history

The town centre occupies the confluence of three steep sided valleys in the Pennines. The main valley is that of the River Calder; the valleys constrict the shape of the town. Streams from the surrounding hills provided water for corn and fulling mills, and, later, power for cotton spinning and weaving. Communications were provided in their turn by the building of roads, the Rochdale Canal, and then the main line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway between Manchester and Leeds; now the Calder Valley Railway line. Each occupy the gap through the hills via Hebden Bridge and Halifax. Harold Shipman, the G.P. who is believed to have killed over 200 patients in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's, claimed some of his victims while working as a doctor in Todmorden.

Related Topics:
Pennines - River Calder - Rochdale Canal - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway - Manchester - Leeds - Calder Valley Railway - Hebden Bridge - Halifax - Harold Shipman - G.P.

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