Walsden

Walsden
Travis Mill Lock and Walsden Church
Walsden  Walsden shown within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SD934220
Metropolitan borough	Calderdale
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TODMORDEN
Postcode district	OL14
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Calder Valley
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Walsden is a large village in the town of Todmorden in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, close to the Greater Manchester border. It lies along the A6033 Keighley to Littleborough road in the Walsden Valley, a branch of the Upper Calder Valley, and is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south of Todmorden and 3.9 miles (6.3 km) north of Littleborough.

Walsden railway station on the Leeds-Todmorden-Manchester line originally opened in 1841 and re-opened 10 September 1990, having been closed for almost 30 years. It was also the only place to be bombed in Todmorden during the Second World War Blitz, this was probably due to the German plane having a leftover bomb dropping it on what appeared to be an important site as it was a railway station.

Etymology

Walsden's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin meaning "Valley of Foreigner" or "Valley of he who is Foreign". Foreign refers to the Celtic Britons who lived in West Yorkshire at the time of the Anglo Saxon Petty Kingdoms. It has been said in the past that it comes from "Wolves' Den", this is dismissed as a folk etymology.

Sport

Walsden has a cricket club that is one of the two Yorkshire teams playing in the major Lancashire Leagues, the other being Todmorden Cricket Club.

External links

Media related to Walsden at Wikimedia Commons