Heywood
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HEYWOOD, a town and a chapelry in Heap township, Bury parish, and a sub-district in Bury district, Lancashire. The town stands on the Rochdale canal, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, near the river Roch, 3 miles E of Bury; was, toward the close of last century, a mere village, inhabited chiefly by hand loom fustian weavers; has acquired importance from the working of coal in the adjoining townships of Bamford and Hopwood, and from the enterprise and skill of local capitalists; and is now a populous, busy, thriving seat of various manufactures. Pop. of the town in 1851, 12,194; in 1861, 12,824. Houses, 2,630. The chapelry is less extensive than the town, and was constituted in 1840. Pop., 9,231. Houses, 1,843. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £400. Patron, the Rector of Bury. See Heap. The sub-district contains the chief part of Heap township, an uninhabited portion of Bury township, part of Pilsworth township, and the whole of Hopwood township, the last two in Middleton parish. Pop., 17,591. Houses, 3,582.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) more...
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Heywood library.Cemeteries
- Rochdale Rd East, Cemetery
- St James, Tower St, Church of England
- St Luke, York St, Church of England
- Church St, New Jerusalem
- Central Methodist, Market St, Wesleyan Methodist
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Heywood.Church History
Church Records
- Rochdale Rd, Baptist
- Hornby Street, Christian Spiritualist Church
- All Souls, Rochdale Rd East, Church of England
- St James, Tower St, Church of England
- St Luke, York St, Church of England
- St Margaret, Heys Lane, Church of England
- Rochdale Rd East, Congregational
- Bury New Rd, Free Methodist
- Manchester Rd, Free Methodist
- Kingdom Hall, Taylor St, Jehovah's Witness
- Trinity Methodist, Earl St, Methodist
- Miller St, Methodist New Connexion
- Church St, New Jerusalem
- Evangelical Church, Manchester Rd, Non-conformist
- Bridge St, Primitive Methodist
- Miller St, Primitive Methodist
- Our Lady and St Paul, Argyle Street, Roman Catholic
- St Joseph, Dawson St, Roman Catholic
- St Joseph, Mary St, Roman Catholic
- Bridge St, Salvation Army
- Brittain Hill, Unitarian
- Bethel, Bethel St, United Methodist Free Church
- Central Methodist, Market St, Wesleyan Methodist
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Heywood area is Rochdale.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Heywood was a chapelry in the township of Heap in the parish of Bury.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.