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unusual facts about Mons Mill, Todmorden



Alan Godfrey

Adamski's body was found lying on a heap of coal in Tomlin's coal yard in the town of Todmorden at 15:45 on Wednesday June 11, 1980.

Burnley Wood

Further along Hufling Lane, west of 'Hufflen Hall' a row of cottages known as 'Organ Row' were built near to Towneley railway station which had opened along the route of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway between Rose Grove and Todmorden in 1849 .

In broad terms the area lies between Parliament Street in the north and Stoney Street in the south, and from the railway in the west to Todmorden Road in the east.

Joshua Fielden

Joshua Fielden (cotton manufacturer) (1748 - 1811), founder of the cotton spinning business Fielden Brothers of Todmorden, Yorkshire, father of John Fielden

Mons Mill, Todmorden

He sold it to the newly formed Mons Mill Company Limited and the mill was renamed Mons Mill (after the Battle of Mons).

Improvements in textile machinery (by Kay, Hargreaves and Arkwright), along with the development of turnpike roads (1751–1781) helped to develop the new cotton industry and increase the local population.

My Summer of Love

The whole shoot was done on location in Todmorden during the hottest summer Yorkshire had seen in 50 years.

Samuel Fielden

Samuel Fielden was born in Todmorden, Lancashire, England to Abraham and Alice (née Jackson) Fielden.

Simeon Lord

Lord, the fourth child of ten children of Simeon Lord and Ann Fielden of Dobroyd (near Todmorden), Yorkshire, England, was born about 28 January 1771.

Thingumajig Theatre

Founded in 2005 by Korean American puppeteer Andrew Kim and British actor/musician Kathy Kim, Thingumajig Theatre is based in Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.

Todmorden bus station

The station consists of five stands, and is used by First West Yorkshire, TLC Travel and Rossendalebus who operate services to areas around Todmorden and to the towns of Bacup, Burnley, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, Littleborough, Rawtenstall, Rochdale and Walsden.

Todmorden Unitarian Church

The Unitarian movement originated in Todmorden in the early 19th century, and one of their prominent members was John Fielden, a local mill owner and a social reformer, who later became a Member of Parliament.

Urban agriculture

Some of the Incredible Edible Todmorden plots have been permission plots while others have been examples of guerilla gardening.

Todmorden is a village of 17,000 inhabitants in Yorkshire, United Kingdom with an innovative successful urban agriculture model.


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