Portsmouth (Yorkshire de l'Ouest)

Portsmouth est un village du Yorkshire de l'Ouest, en Angleterre. Il est situé dans le district de Calderdale, à une dizaine de kilomètres au sud-est de la ville de Burnley. Administrativement, il relève de la paroisse civile de Todmorden, qui comptait 15 481 habitants au recensement de 2011.

1. Histoire

Portsmouth appartenait à l'origine au comté voisin du Lancashire.

1. Transports

Le village est traversé par la route A646, qui relie Burnley et Halifax. Il possède une gare de chemin de fer en activité de 1849 à 1958 qui est desservie par les trains de la Copy Pit line (en), une ligne opérée à l'origine par la Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (en).

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Portsmouth, West Yorkshire

Portsmouth is a village on the A646 road, in the civil parish of Todmorden, in the Calderdale district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Nearby settlements include the towns of Burnley and Todmorden and the village of Cornholme.

Portsmouth (Lancs) railway station

Portsmouth railway station was on the Copy Pit line and served the village of Portsmouth, which was part of Lancashire, before being incorporated into the West Riding of Yorkshire in the late 1880s. It is now in the successor county of West Yorkshire. It opened along with the line in 1849 but was closed as an economy measure on 7 July 1958. Few traces of the station remain, although the line itself remains in use for passenger trains between Burnley and Hebden Bridge or Todmorden.

Cornholme

Cornholme is a village in the civil parish of Todmorden, in 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) north-west of Todmorden. The village is close to the A646 Burnley Road.

Pudsey, Calderdale

Pudsey is a neighbourhood in the village of Cornholme, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is near the town of Todmorden and the A646 Burnley Road.

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Hill Top Colliery

The Hill Top Colliery in Sharneyford between Bacup and Todmorden was, until 2014, the last coal mine still in operation in Lancashire.