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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 11,826.
Todmorden town centre occupies 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.
Toponymy
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.[3] 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., see below), or that the name meant "marshy home of the fox", from the Old English.
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