Cornholme: what to know before moving day
Cornholme grew on cotton weaving and on making shuttles and bobbins, and the street names still show it: in the close grid of streets beside Burnley Road, one is called Bobbin Street. OpenStreetMap records most of these streets with sett surfaces, including Club Street, Rosebery Street, Gladstone Street, Victoria Street, Garfield Street, Lincoln Street and Palma Street, so a loaded trolley is slower here than on tarmac. Frostholme Mill and Springwood Mill still stand among the houses.
St Michael's Church, built in 1902 to a Gothic design by C. Hodgson Fowler, is next to the main road, and the listed war memorial, an Angel of Peace in white marble, is in the churchyard of Vale Baptist Church. One detail worth knowing before the day: OpenStreetMap records a 12 foot height limit on Holme House Road, so the van's route to an address there is checked in advance.
How the van gets to Cornholme
Burnley Road (the A646) runs through the village and carries the 591 Halifax to Burnley bus, and Shore New Road and Pudsey Road lead off it. From Bradford the van comes the whole length of the Calder valley through Todmorden, one of the longer runs at roughly 55 to 65 minutes.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 55 to 65 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around Cornholme
Vale.
Services for Cornholme
Each service below links to its Todmorden page, which covers how the job works in and around Todmorden.
Cornholme: questions before you book
Was Cornholme in Lancashire?
Yes, historically. It became part of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1888 and joined the Borough of Todmorden in 1896. Today it is in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, right on the Lancashire boundary, and the council for bins and council tax is Calderdale.
Is there a station in Cornholme?
Not now. Cornholme station closed in 1938, and a local campaign group has argued for a new one. The nearest station is Todmorden, so the move itself is a road job along the A646.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): OL14 8NH, Todmorden West ward, parish of Todmorden, Calderdale
- Cornholme (Wikipedia): village in Todmorden parish on the Lancashire boundary, narrow Calder valley about 2.5 miles north-west of Todmorden, close to the A646, historically Lancashire, West Riding 1888, Borough of Todmorden 1896, cotton weaving and shuttle and bobbin making, station until 1938
- Cornholme railway station (Wikipedia): the former station on the Copy Pit line and the Cornholme Rail Action Group campaign
- Listed buildings in Todmorden, inner area (National Heritage List): St Michael's Church, Cornholme (1902, C. Hodgson Fowler), Cornholme War Memorial (1920, Angel of Peace, churchyard of Vale Baptist Church)
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract): Burnley Road A646, sett streets (Club, Rosebery, Gladstone, Victoria, Garfield, Lincoln, Palma Streets), Bobbin Street, Holme House Road (maxheight 12'0"), Shore New Road, Pudsey Road, Frostholme Mill, Springwood Mill, Vale neighbourhood node
- OpenStreetMap bus route relation 591, Halifax to Burnley, along Burnley Road through Cornholme