Cornholme

Coordinates: 53°43′59″N 2°08′49″W / 53.733°N 2.147°W / 53.733; -2.147

Cornholme
Cornholme, 2009
Cornholme  Cornholme shown within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SD904263
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

External links

Media related to Cornholme at Wikimedia Commons