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The C of E Church dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. The Grade ll listed church was built about 1902. In October 2013 it received a £85,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to carry out restoration work.

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Looking across towards Cornholme Station which closed in 1938 with Burnley Road in the foreground.

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Looking down Burnley Road towards Mons Mill and chimney.

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On the hillside above Burnley Road the chapel was founded in 1777 and enlarged and extended over the years. The church closed in the 1960s but services continued in a room in the Sunday SChool until the final closure in October 1985. One part is now…

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Burnley Road at Newton between Todmorden and Lydgate.

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Scaitcliffe east of Lydgate. The old corn mill was destroyed by fire in the 1940s but the house survived.

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Looking up the valley with Robinwood Mill prominent centre left. Harley Wood church to the right.

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Looking up the valley. Burnley Road from Todmorden passing under the railway bridge on the right. To the left a railway siding.

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In the foreground Mount Zion Methodist Chapel; closed 1968 and then demolished although the graveyard remains. Down the valley the tower and spire of St Michael and ALL Angels C of E Church. The large mill behind is Frostholme Mill.

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Portsmouth looking up towards Burnley. Just discernible right of centre the small station on the Todmorden- Burnley 'Copy Pit' line, closed 1958.

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Looking up the valley over the small mill town towards Burnley with the station more or less in the centre. The station had opened in 1878 and closed in 1938. The chimney to the left of the big chimney was for Law Mill.

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Looking up Burnley Road to Knott Wood Viaduct on the Todmorden-Burnley 'Copy Pit' line. To the left the top storeys of Robinwood Mill.

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Top right Harley Wood Church opened 1858 and demolished in 1975. The building in the foreground believed to be Lineholme Baptist Chapel which closed in 1962 and was subsequently demolished.

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The large building on the left the former primary school now the Robinwood Activity Centre.

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Can you locate? Originally thought to be the road overbridge at Copy Pit looking North West and the second bridge seen through the arch would be commensurate with that although the two bridges were further apart than they appear to be here. Further…

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When built it was called Hare Mill but was renamed after the battle of Mons in the First World War. Demolished 2000.

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Hare Mill on Burnley Road was built for the Hare Spinning Company and was completed in 1910. It passed to the Mons Mill Company and was renamed Mons Mill after the First World War battle. Textile production ceased in 1968 and the mill was demolished…

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North of Burnley Road opposite Centre Vale, seen here looking over to Buckley Wood. The large building left of centre was Todmorden Grammar School and is now Ferny Lee Primary School.
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