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'''Hopwood''' is an lower class suburb of [[Heywood, Greater Manchester|Heywood]], a town within the [[Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale]], in [[Greater Manchester]], England. It is north of the [[M62 motorway]]. hopwood is a violent area where if you arent local you will get stabbed, the biggest convict in hopwood which is definatly in heywood is jack ryder. |
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During the [[Middle Ages]], Hopwood formed a [[Township (England)|township]] within the [[Middleton, Greater Manchester|Middleton]] ecclesiastical parish of the [[Salford (hundred)|Salfordshire hundred]] of [[Lancashire]].<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53022 Townships - Hopwood | British History Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
During the [[Middle Ages]], Hopwood formed a [[Township (England)|township]] within the [[Middleton, Greater Manchester|Middleton]] ecclesiastical parish of the [[Salford (hundred)|Salfordshire hundred]] of [[Lancashire]].<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53022 Townships - Hopwood | British History Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Revision as of 11:46, 11 September 2010
Hopwood is an lower class suburb of Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north of the M62 motorway. hopwood is a violent area where if you arent local you will get stabbed, the biggest convict in hopwood which is definatly in heywood is jack ryder.
During the Middle Ages, Hopwood formed a township within the Middleton ecclesiastical parish of the Salfordshire hundred of Lancashire.[1]
John Rhodes was one of the victims of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He died several weeks after the event and his body was dissected by order of magistrates wishing to prove his death was not a result of Peterloo.[2]
Hopwood has a primary school and a fire station for the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.
References
- ^ Townships - Hopwood | British History Online
- ^ Marlow, Joyce (1969). The Peterloo Massacre. Rapp & Whiting. ISBN 0-85391-122-3.