Heywood
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ N , 2 ° 14 ′ W
Heywood is a town between Bury and Rochdale in Greater Manchester in North West England with a population of 28,000 (2001 Census). The city belongs to the Metropolitan County Greater Manchester or the administrative seat of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale and is counted in the constituency of "Heywood and Middleton" for the British Parliament .
Heywood is on the M66 motorway and can be reached by train on the East Lancashire Railway, which is more of a tourist attraction.
The name of the place goes back to a certain Piers Ewood , who lived in the hamlet of the same name in Lancashire around 1164 and was an ancestor of Peter Heywood of the Bounty . In 1717 the Heywoods, who fought on the side of the royalists in the English Civil War and lost a large part of their fortune, sold their ancestral home Heywood Hall, built in the 13th century and rebuilt in 1611, to John Starkey of Rochdale . In 1960 the building was demolished.
Town twinning
Peine in Lower Saxony , since 1967.
Personalities
- Actress Julie Goodyear , made famous by the soap opera Coronation Street , was born in Heywood and still lives in the city today.
- The singer Lisa Stansfield (* 1966) was born in Heywood.
- The football player David Cross (* 1964) comes from Heywood.
- The pop band The Mock Turtles was founded in Heywood.
- The photography pioneer Roger Fenton (1819–1869) was born in Heywood.