Todmorden has a complex geo-administrative history.

Since the local government reforms of 1974, Todmorden has been administered as part of the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, within the Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.

There has been a great deal of regeneration activity and Todmorden is now increasingly a commuter town for people working in Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and smaller towns.

Todmorden has a very busy nightlife, for a small town.

Todmorden has several attractions, the foremost being a large town hall that dominates the centre of the town.

Todmorden has the look of a Victorian mill town and has some notable buildings including Dobroyd Castle ( completed in 1869 ), now used as a residential activity centre for schoolchildren ; the Edwardian Hippodrome Theatre ; an imposing Greek Revival town hall ( built 1866 – 1875 ) that dominates the centre of town ; the Grade I listed Todmorden Unitarian Church ( built 1865 – 1869 ); and the 120 ft Stoodley Pike monument ( built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854 ) atop the hill of the same name.

Todmorden has two Nobel Prize winners: Prof. Sir John Cockroft ( Physics ) and Prof. Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson ( Chemistry ).

Fred Lawless, Liverpool born theatre playwright has a house in Todmorden ; he was also a writer for the BBC 1 TV series EastEnders, as well as several other TV and radio programmes.

Todmorden actress Claire Benedict has appeared in UK TV shows Waking The Dead, Prime Suspect, Unforgiven, Holby City, Casualty, Doctors, Grange Hill, The Bill, and the Lenny Henry Show.

Other police stations are located in Todmorden and Brighouse which has recently reopened.

The Incredible Edible Todmorden project which began in 2008 has meant that food crops have been planted at forty locations throughout the village.

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

Hillditch, who had been one of the inspirations behind the Dominator and, at the time as General Manager of Leicester City Transport, was the launch customer for the type, had earlier ( when General Manager of the Halifax Corporation, Halifax JOC and Todmorden JOC fleets ) been one of the customers requesting the SRG6 Fleetline single-decker, but when Leicester required further single deckers from 1980 instead of ordering the Dominator he commissioned the Dennis Falcon H.

The plant used German prisoners of war that were housed at nearby Todmorden Mills.

That school relocated to a new site on cleared properties in the area of Waterloo Road and in the mid 2000s merged with Todmorden Road School, which itself was demolished, the site of which is now the location of the Burnley Register Office.

Until the boundary reformation by the Local Government Act 1888, the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary ran through the centre of Todmorden, following the River Calder to the north-west and the Walsden Water for less than a mile to the south before turning south-eastwards across Langfield Common.

Todmorden is situated alongside the Pennine Way, Pennine Bridleway, Mary Towneley Loop and Calderdale Way and is popular for outdoor activities such as walking, fell running, mountain biking and bouldering.

Centre Vale Park in Todmorden is the setting for several pieces of local art, including tree carvings by the sculptor John Adamson.

Todmorden received a grant for the support of bees and bee keeping in summer of 2011.

John Fielden ( 1784 – 1849 ), land and factory owner in Todmorden and scion of the town's Fielden family, was a Member of Parliament and national leader of the Ten Hours Campaign for factory reform.

Brought up on Commercial Street and educated at Todmorden Grammar School ( now called Todmorden High School ) on Ferney Lee Road in Todmorden, he played cricket for Burnley and Todmorden.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, widespread development occurred in Burnley Wood, the residential elements having two distinct characters: large stone-built houses in spacious grounds, flanking Brooklands Road and Todmorden Road and largely providing accommodation for wealthy mill or mine owners and senior employees, and high density terraced housing.

Bury left for the 1895 season before Todmorden joined in 1897.

Further progress was not made until 1791, when John Rennie was asked to make a new survey in June, and two months later to make surveys for branches to Rochdale, Oldham and to a limeworks near Todmorden.

After his last Test match, he continued to play cricket in the Lancashire Leagues until 1951, taking over 1, 000 wickets, including 10 in an innings for Burnley against Todmorden in 1945.

Before May 2009, the links to Lancashire and the North West were also seen in the media with Todmorden receiving an analogue TV signal from BBC North West.

Todmorden and the nearby towns and villages then received BBC Yorkshire analogue television from Leeds, whilst ITV regionalisation was from Yorkshire Television at Leeds and not Granada Television from Manchester.

In February 2010, Todmorden featured in the BBC Radio 4 programme " Costing the Earth: The New Diggers ".

John Kettley ( born 1952 ), the former BBC weatherman, grew up in Todmorden.

Transmitters in the extremes of West Yorkshire, covering towns like Todmorden previously broadcast this regional version but now are covered by BBC Look North.

Todmorden featured in a TV show about haunted buildings.

On June 11 of that year police were called to J. W. Parker's coal yard in Todmorden after the discovery of a body, subsequently identified as 56-year-old Zigmund Adamski from Tingley, near Wakefield.

After intense media interest, the Todmorden police force were forbidden from talking further to the press about the case.

There are Incredible Edible Todmorden food plots in the street, in the health centre car park, at the rail station, in the police station, in the cemetery, and in all the village schools.

The television series was filmed mainly in Hadfield, but also features Glossop, Marsden, Mottram, Hope Valley ( Derbyshire ), and Todmorden.

The various finds from the 1898 dig are now housed in the Todmorden Library, on permanent display.

A double murder took place at Christ Church, Todmorden on 2 March 1868.

With the exception of Todmorden station, all six closed during the middle third of the 20th century, though Walsden station reopened on 10 September 1990 on a site a few yards north of the original 1845 station.

The town hall in Todmorden straddles the Walsden Water, a tributary of the River Calder, and was situated in both Lancashire and Yorkshire until the administrative county boundary was moved on 1 January 1888.

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the then county borough of Halifax, the boroughs of Brighouse, Todmorden and the urban districts of Elland, Hebden Royd, Ripponden, Sowerby Bridge, and part of Queensbury and Shelf urban district, and also Hepton Rural District.

Based on historic definitions of the ward boundary of Burnley Wood it could also be defined as including the more affluent areas around Woodgrove Road area to the east of Todmorden Road, Brooklands Road to the south and the area north of Parliament Street to the river Calder.

Todmorden Road, a de facto eastern boundary of Burnley Wood, looking northIn the sixteenth-century, as the name suggests, the area was mostly covered by rough moorland and woodland, with a scattering of farmsteads on the outskirts of the Burnley.

Large scale urban development therefore took place on both sides of the river whereby by the 1880s, Burnley Wood and the district of Fulledge just north of the river between Plumbe Street and Todmorden Road had developed into a densely populated area of terraced housing laid out in a classic grid iron pattern of horizontal and vertical rows of mainly identikit two bedroomed houses.

These include the Brittania Inn at corner of Springfield Road and Oxford Road which was saved from demolition in the 1970s, The Stanley in Oxford Road, The Royal Butterfly in Huffling Lane, The Rifle Volunteer on the corner of Tarleton Street and Smalley Street and the historic Woodman Inn in Todmorden Road.

The Summit Tunnel fire occurred on 20 December 1984 on a dangerous goods train passing through the Summit Tunnel on the Greater Manchester / West Yorkshire border, on the rail line between Littleborough and Todmorden, England.