Hopwood, Greater Manchester
Hopwood is a locality and component area of the town of Heywood within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north of the M62 motorway.
Although a today residential district at the south of the town of Heywood, Hopwood once 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 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 0853911223.