Heywood
Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the south bank of the River Roch, 2 miles east of Bury, 4 miles southwest of Rochdale, and 8 miles north of Manchester. Middleton lies to the south, whilst to the north is the Cheesden Valley, open moorland, and the Pennines.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 29,700 residents
- Description: town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Heywood, Greater Manchester”, “Heywood, Rochdale”, and “Monkey Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Michael’s Church, Bamford and Heywood railway station.
Heywood railway station
Railway station
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heywood railway station serves the town of Heywood, in Greater Manchester, England. Formerly a stop on the national railway network, it is now the southern terminus of heritage East Lancashire Railway services.
Holy Family Roman Catholic and Church of England College
School
Holy Family RC & CE College is a coeducational secondary school located in Heywood in the English county of Greater Manchester. It is a voluntary aided school administered by Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford and the Church of England Diocese of Manchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birtle and Norden.
Birtle
Hamlet
Photo: michael ely, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birtle is an affluent hamlet Historically in the parish of Bury, Lancashire, now within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. Birtle is situated 2 miles northwest of Heywood.
Norden
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Norden is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire until the local government reorganisation of 1974, it lies on the western outskirts of Rochdale and had a population of 9,733 according to the 2021 census. Norden is situated 2 miles north of Heywood.
Bury
Photo: jolmartyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bury is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England, ten miles north of central Manchester. Bury is a former mill town known for manufacturing textiles.
Heywood
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Rochdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.59677° or 53° 35′ 48″ northLongitude
-2.22397° or 2° 13′ 26″ westPopulation
29,700Elevation
397 feet (121 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HYWOpen location code
9C5VHQWG+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 27329904OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Heywood” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Heywood”
- Basque: “Heywood (Manchester Handia)”
- Basque: “Heywood”
- Belarusian: “Хэйвуд”
- Bengali: “উত্তর হেউড”
- Bengali: “হেউড”
- Cebuano: “Heywood”
- Chinese: “海伍德 (大曼彻斯特)”
- Chinese: “海伍德”
- Chinese: “黑伍德”
- Czech: “Heywood”
- Dutch: “Heywood”
- French: “Heywood”
- German: “Heywood”
- Gujarati: “હેવુડ”
- Hebrew: “הייווד”
- Irish: “Heywood, Manchain Mhór”
- Irish: “Heywood”
- Italian: “Heywood”
- Japanese: “北ヘイウッド”
- Japanese: “西ヘイウッド”
- Kannada: “ಹೇವುಡ್”
- Korean: “웨스트 헤이우드”
- Korean: “헤이우드”
- Ladin: “Heywood”
- Lithuanian: “Not Hejvudas”
- Lithuanian: “Vest Helivudas”
- Luxembourgish: “Heywood”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Heywood”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heywood i Greater Manchester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heywood i Stor-Manchester”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heywood”
- Persian: “هیوود، منچستر بزرگ”
- Polish: “Heywood”
- Portuguese: “Heywood”
- Romanian: “Heywood”
- Russian: “Саусвел”
- Russian: “Хейвуд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Heywood, Greater Manchester”
- Slovenian: “Heywood, Greater Manchester”
- South Azerbaijani: “هیوود، منچستر بزرق”
- Spanish: “Heywood (Gran Mánchester)”
- Spanish: “Heywood”
- Swedish: “Heywood, Greater Manchester”
- Swedish: “Heywood”
- Tamil: “ஹயவூட்”
- Tamil: “ஹெயவூட்”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్ హేయ్వుడ్”
- Telugu: “హే వుడ్”
- Urdu: “ہییوود”
- Welsh: “Heywood, Manceinion Fwyaf”
- Welsh: “Heywood”
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