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Hopwood
OS grid referenceSD865095
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHEYWOOD
Postcode districtOL10
Dialling code01706
PoliceGreater Manchester
FireGreater Manchester
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Greater Manchester

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

  1. ^ Townships - Hopwood | British History Online
  2. ^ Marlow, Joyce (1969). The Peterloo Massacre. Rapp & Whiting. ISBN 0-85391-122-3.


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