Hopwood, Greater Manchester
- Hopwood, Greater Manchester
infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Hopwood
latitude= 53.582128
longitude= -2.203179
population =
population_density=
metropolitan_borough= Rochdale
metropolitan_county= Greater Manchester
region= North West England
constituency_westminster= Heywood and Middleton
post_town= HEYWOOD
postcode_district = OL10
postcode_area= OL
dial_code= 01706
os_grid_reference= SD865095
london_distance=
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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. [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53022 Townships - Hopwood | British History Online ] ]
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. [cite book |first=Joyce |last=Marlow |title=The Peterloo Massacre |publisher=Rapp & Whiting |date=1969 |isbn=0853911223]
Hopwood has a school and a fire station for the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.
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