In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hopwood like this:
HOPWOOD, a township in Middleton parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Leeds railway, and the Rochdale canal, 1 mile N of Middleton. It includes the villages of Birch and Gooden. Acres, 2, 043. Real property, £10, 822; of which £2, 200 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1, 575; in 1861, 2, 281. ...
Houses, 450. The increase of pop. was caused by the erection of cotton mills. Hopwood Hall is a mansion of the 14th century, situated in a well wooded park; belonged, at its origin, to the Hopwoods; passed, early in the 18th century, to Edward Gregge, Esq.; and belongs now to Captain E. J. Gregge Hopwood. Many cotton mills, and an extensive iron foundry are at Gooden; and a national school is at Birch.
Hopwood through time
Hopwood is now part of Rochdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Rochdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hopwood itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hopwood, in Rochdale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21473
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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