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Town view from the golf course
Town view from the golf course
Coordinates 53 ° 43 ′  N , 2 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′  N , 2 ° 6 ′  W
Todmorden (England)
Death murders
Death murders
Residents 14,941 (as of: 2001)
administration
Post town DEATH MURDERS
ZIP code section OL14
prefix 01706
Part of the country England
region Yorkshire and the Humber
Shire county West Yorkshire
District Calderdale
British Parliament Calder Valley
Website: http://www.todmordencouncil.org.uk/

Todmorden ( pronunciation : [ tɒdmədən ]; locally also tɒdmɔːdən ) is a small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale the English county of West Yorkshire . According to the 2001 census, it had a total of 14,941 inhabitants.

The name of the city is traced back to the personal name Totta and means something like "Totta's border valley".

The River Calder divides them into the two traditional counties of England, Lancashire and Yorkshire . However, from 1888 onwards, the town was administered by the West Riding of Yorkshire for practical reasons, and from 1974 to 1986 Todmorden was administered by West Yorkshire County Council. Since its abolition, the highest local authority has been the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale . Since the main part of homicide is on the north or west side of the Calder and the addition "Lancashire" was also used in postal addresses, the citizens of the city feel that they belong to this county.

Todmorden is twin town of Bramsche in the district of Osnabrück in Germany and Roncq in the Nord department in France .

history

The area of ​​the city was settled as early as the Bronze Age, as evidenced by the Blackheath Barrow Ring Cairn excavated by J. Lawson Russell in 1898 .

Todmorden was first mentioned in the Domesday Book . It was a scattered agricultural settlement on the hills around the confluence of three valleys of the Pennines .

Up until the 18th century, Todmorden was characterized by agriculture and the processing of wool. Improvements in textile machines, the abundant hydropower of the rivers from the Pennines and the proximity to Manchester favored the transition to cotton processing, improved traffic conditions through better roads, the commissioning of the Rochdale Canal in 1804 and the opening of the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1841 pushed industrialization further . Another railway line to Burnley opened in 1849, and in 1862 a connection between Stansfield Hall and Hall Royd completed the triangle.

With the industrial revolution , trade and the population center shifted to the valley. The industrial family Fielden was particularly influential. In 1907, Todmorden became the second city on the British Isles to begin public transport by bus.

The economic decline of the once important cloth industry began slowly after the First World War and accelerated after the Second World War . It led to the fact that after the closure of numerous factories, Todmorden now mainly serves as a commuter residence for the surrounding cities of Manchester , Leeds and Bradford .

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Todmorden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Calderdale.Retrieved September 2, 2009
  2. ^ Nicolaisen, Gelling & Richards: The Names of Towns and Cities in Britain , p. 181
  3. ^ H. Ling Wroth: The Yorkshire Coiners 1767–1783, and Notes on Old and Prehistoric Halifax.
  4. ^ Blackheath Circle, Todmorden, West Yorkshire | The Northern Antiquarian . Megalithix.wordpress.com. November 19, 2010. Retrieved July 16, 2015.