Valathoor
Valathoor is a village about 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the town of Gudiyatham in Vellore District, Tamil Nadu, India. There is a railway station about 1 kilometre (1 mi) from the village near Ulli, with the village's name. This station is located in the Katpadi–Jolarpet mainline. There are trains to Bangalore (via Jolarpet) and Chennai (via Arakonam). The nearest town is Madanur, on the Chennai — Bengaluru Highway, which is about 2.5 kilometres (2 mi) from Valathoor.
Valathoor | |
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Village | |
  Valathoor Location in Tamil Nadu, India  Valathoor Valathoor (India) | |
| Coordinates: 12°53′23.50″N 78°50′21.89″E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Vellore |
| Population | |
| • Total | 15,000 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | [Tamil,Urdu,Telugu, Hindi] |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 635813 |
| Telephone code | 04171 |
| Vehicle registration | TN23 |
There are Two sub villages (Rasampatti and varadhapalayam) villages in Valathur circle.
There is Lake "Valathoor Lake" which gets the water source from Palaru (from Madhanur). There is a temple at the lake side called Kaliyamman Temple, and four mosques and four churches are there. There is a madarasa and an Government Aided Elementary School
There were five tanneries in this village since 1920. In 1996 these tanneries were closed for not providing Effluent Treatment Plants as per Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board directives. Recently from 2010, a shoe company is started by "Gopi Engineering Group". This village is one of the victims of the leather tanneries water pollution. The ground water was totally polluted and from 2011 onwards, the Valathoor Lake is polluted from the leather tanneries effluent water via the Palar river.