Todmorden | |
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A view over Todmorden |
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Todmorden shown within West Yorkshire | |
Population | 15,481 (Including Cornholme and Portsmouth, West Yorkshire. 2011) |
OS grid reference | SD936241 |
• London | 174 mi (280 km) SSE |
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Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | TODMORDEN |
Postcode district | OL14 |
Dialling code | 01706 |
Police | West Yorkshire |
Fire | West Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
UK Parliament | |
Todmorden (/ˈtɒdmədən/; locally /ˈtɒdmɔːdən//ˈtɒdmərdən/ or /tɔːmdɪn/) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is 17 miles (27 km) from Manchester and in 2011 had a population of 15,481.
Todmorden is at the confluence of three steep-sided Pennine valleys and is surrounded by moorlands with outcrops of sandblasted gritstone.