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Cornholme, 2009 |
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Cornholme
Cornholme shown within West Yorkshire |
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| OS grid reference | SD904263 |
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| 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 |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
Cornholme is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. 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.
Cornholme was historically a part of Lancashire, 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.
It is home to Cornholme J, I and N (Junior, Infant and Nursery) School. One of the pupils there describes Cornholme as full of history and legend. Cornholme School itself, despite being over 100 years old, is still one of the youngest in the area!
The Gem, whose name lives on in an electrical goods store, was once a cinema, in pre-television days. There are no cinemas in Cornholme today.
Cornholme is the location of a number of scenes in the 2004 film 'My Summer of Love'.
Picture Archives of the Cornholme area and the school can be found at the following addresses
Todmorden History and The History Section
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cornholme Cornholme] at Wikimedia Commons