Cornholme

{{Infobox UK place

| country = England

| official_name = Cornholme

| coordinates = {{coord|53.733|-2.147|display=inline,title}}

| population =

| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Calderdale

| civil_parish = Todmorden

| metropolitan_borough = Calderdale

| metropolitan_county = West Yorkshire

| region = Yorkshire and the Humber

| constituency_westminster = Calder Valley

| post_town = TODMORDEN

| postcode_district = OL14

| postcode_area = OL

| dial_code = 01706

| os_grid_reference = SD904263

| static_image_name = Cornholme (3361112322).jpg

| static_image_caption = Cornholme, 2009

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Cornholme is a village in the civil parish of Todmorden, in the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 103 Blackburn & Burnley (Clitheroe & Skipton)|ISBN= 9780319231548 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2009}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html |title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer |format=csv (download) |date= 1 January 2016 |publisher=Ordnance Survey |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |accessdate=18 February 2016}} It lies at the edge of Calderdale, on the boundary with Lancashire, and in the narrow Calder Valley about {{convert|2.5|mi|km|0}} north-west of Todmorden. The village is close to the A646 Burnley Road.

History

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.

Cornholme became a civil parish in 1894,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10414921|title=Relationships and changes Cornholme CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=11 August 2023}} on 30 September 1897 the parish was abolished to form Todmorden.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/todmorden.html|title=Todmorden Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=11 August 2023}}

The Gem was once a cinema. There are no cinemas in Cornholme today.

Cornholme was until 1938 served by Cornholme railway station.

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

Famous residents

Thomas Southwell (zoologist) FRSE FZS (1879–1962) parasitologist

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060424063914/http://www.todmordenhistory.co.uk/ Todmorden History] including picture archives of the Cornholme area and the school

Category:Villages in West Yorkshire

Category:Former civil parishes in West Yorkshire

Category:Todmorden