About Todmorden Lions
Todmorden Lions have been around for over 30 years and some of our members were part of the original band of merry Lions when our Charter was granted in 1979 and they are justly proud of this.
We're best known for our major events, like the Family Fun Day, the Duck Race and the Canal Walk and for our Santa Sleigh at Christmas but, behind the scenes, Todmorden Lions are involved in many less publicised activities. These include helping to man the gates at other local events such as Todmorden Agricultural Show, Todmorden Carnival and Todmorden Together's KidsFest. We also collect used spectacles for less fortunate partially-sighted people around the world and we put on concerts at St Mary's Church for the older citizens of Todmorden.
But we couldn't do any of our work for GOOD CAUSES with the generosity of Todmorden People and we would like to say a big Thank You to all the people of Todmorden.
If you have a worthy local cause and would like to ask us to assist you, please contact us with all the details (Click the "Contact Us" tab above).
About Todmorden
Todmorden is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Upper Calder Valley and has a total population of around 12,000.
Todmorden town centre is situated at the confluence of three steep sided valleys in the Pennines. The valleys constrict the shape of the town. Todmorden is surrounded by moorlands with occasional outcrops of gritstone sandblasted by winds.
The historic county boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire was marked by the River Calder which runs through the centre of the town. The border was altered by the Local Government Act 1888, whereby today all of Todmorden lies within West Yorkshire.
The name Todmorden first appears in 1641. The town had earlier been called Tottemerden, Totmardene, Totmereden, Totmerden or Totmerden. The generally accepted meaning of the name is Totta's boundary-valley, probably a reference to the valley running north-west from the town. Alternative suggestions have been proposed, such as that the name derives from two words for death: tod and mor (as in mort), meaning "death-death-wood" (Birch, R.), or that the name meant "marshy home of the fox", from the Old English.
