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Creatives involved in music and art are leaving the city and they're settling down in a quiet, semi-rural Yorkshire valley. But why is it Calder Valley and not say, Holme Valley or Saddleworth?
Because Calder Valley isn't your average semi-rural Yorkshire valley. Take a stroll through the centre of Todmorden and you can't help but notice signs of bohemia: the vegetarian South American-inspired cafe, the second-hand guitar shop, the board games cafe.
In 2003, Todmorden infamously featured in 'C**p Towns' – a coffee table guidebook to dystopian Britain. Keighley and Mirfield also
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