Cornholme

Cornholme
Cornholme, 2009
Cornholme  Cornholme shown within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SD904263
Civil parish	Todmorden
Metropolitan borough	Calderdale
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
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	Calder Valley
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Coordinates: 53°43′59″N 2°08′49″W / 53.733°N 2.147°W

Cornholme is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.^[1][2] It lies at the edge of Calderdale, on the boundary with Lancashire, and in the narrow Calder Valley about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Todmorden(where the population is included). The village is close to the A646 Burnley Road.

Cornholme was historically a part of Lancashire, and falls within the OL postcode area. The former principal industries of most of the Upper Calder Valley being cotton weaving and the manufacture of textile accessories such as shuttles and bobbins. The village became part of the West Riding of Yorkshire on 1 January 1888 and part of the Borough of Todmorden, within the West Riding, on 2 June 1896.

The Gem, whose name lives on in an electrical goods store, was once a cinema. There are no cinemas in Cornholme today.

Cornholme is the location of a number of scenes in the 2004 film My Summer of Love.

References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 103 Blackburn & Burnley (Clitheroe & Skipton) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2009. ISBN 9780319231548.
2. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

External links

• Todmorden History including picture archives of the Cornholme area and the school

Media related to Cornholme at Wikimedia Commons