Heywood

Heywood, nicknamed since the mid-19th century as "Money Town" for reasons unknown, is a moderately sized and attractive town Greater Manchester, England. It is situated on the River Roch near Rochdale and offers excellent links to the major cities and tourist attractions of the local area as well as the broader area of the north-west of England. Heywood boarders open moorland, and the Pennines, making the town ideally situated with the best of the urrban amenities with the traditions of rural villages and countryside also to hand. Historically a part of Lancashire, Heywood is one of the "heys" or fenced clearings created by the Anglo-Saxons during the early medieval period.

In 1881, poet Edwin Waugh said of Heywood that: "It looks like a great funeral on its way from Bury to Rochdale, consisting of little more than a mile of brick-built cottages and shops. The very dwelling houses look as though they worked in factories." (Edwin Waugh, Lancashire Sketches, 1881).

Ashworth Valley is a popular local beauty spot and Queens Park in Heywood has recently been the subject of a multi-million pound regeneration project with many Victorian features having been restored.

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