# Todmorden

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈtɒdmədən/

## Definitions
1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England. Until 1889 it was in both Lancashire and Yorkshire.

## Etymology
From Old English Totta (“Totta's”) + dene (“valley”); folk etymologies have related it to German Tod (“death”) +
French Mort (“death”) + Old English dene (“valley”); or otherwise deriving from Old English tod (“fox”) + mor (“moor”) + dene (“valley”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/todmorden