Heywood is a chapelry of Bury St Mary Ancient Parish in Lancashire.
Other places in the parish include: Whittle and Heap.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Luke
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1733
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1807
Nonconformists include:
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
HEYWOOD, a town and chapelry, in the township of Heap, parish and union of Bury, hundred of Salford, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 3 miles (E. S. E.) from Bury, on the road to Rochdale.
Heywood, in the Saxon, denotes the site of a wood in a field, or a wood surrounded by fields; a family of the same name resided here for many generations. In the 15th century the place consisted of a few cottages, and at the period when the cotton manufacture began to prevail, it still formed a group of rural dwellings.
The first spinning-mill commenced in its precincts was at Wrigley Brook, in the latter part of the last century, but the extraordinary growth of the cotton-trade at Heywood is of recent date. In 1845 there were thirty-six cotton-mills in the town, all, with one exception, for heavy fustian goods, and in which 129,936 throstles, 203,066 mule-spindles, and 5320 looms were in operation; the whole manufacturing annually 8506 tons of cotton, and consuming 71,101 tons of coal: in these mills and in two paper-mills, 7510 persons were employed. There are five shops for supplying machinery.
The Heywood Coal Company, of recent establishment, has two collieries producing abundance of coal; and a stone-quarry is also wrought.
The river Roche separates this vicinity from Birtle and Bury, the surface rising on both sides of the river; and the benefit of inland navigation is derived from a branch canal, which meets the Rochdale canal at Blue Pits.
The Manchester and Leeds railway passes on the east, and has a branch leading, through Heywood, to Bury.
In 1846 an act was passed for better supplying the town with water: it is supplied with gas by a local company.
Petty-sessions are held every second Wednesday; and fairs take place on the first Friday in April, on the Friday before the first Sunday in August, and on the Friday after the 1st of October.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Rector of Bury, with a net income of £196. The chapel, dedicated to St. Luke, was built in 1611, and enlarged in 1806.
There are places of worship for dissenters; and good national schools.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Archives and libraries – Inventories, registers, catalogs ( 1 )
Tracing your ancestors through local libraries : a guide to genealogical sources
Author: Cole, John
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Bibliography ( 1 )
Bibliography of the town of Heywood
Author: Green, John Albert
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Cemeteries ( 4 )
Heywood Cemetery, register of burials, 1856-1999 ; with index to burials, 1856-1999
Author: Heywood Cemetery (Heywood, Lancashire)
Inscriptions from parish churchyard, Heywood, Lancashire, England
Author: Norman, Bertram William Tuff, 1880-1959
Memorial inscriptions from the church of All Souls, Rochdale Road East, Heywood, Greater Manchester
Author: Berrell, A. Michael
Monumental inscriptions of Heywood Cemetery
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Census – 1851 – Indexes ( 1 )
1851 census surname index of Lancashire–Bury Registration District, Birtle and Heywood Sub-District : PRO ref HO 107/2213
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Church history ( 1 )
The History of S. Luke’s Church, Heywood
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Church records ( 14 )
Baptismal register, 1808-1837
Author: Wesleyan Chapel (Heywood, Lancashire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Heywood, Edenfield, and Holcombe, 1717-1877
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Heywood (Lancashire)
Bury bishop’s transcripts, 1603-1894
Author: Church of England. St. Mary’s Church (Bury, Lancashire)
England, Lancashire, Heywood, St. James, parish registers, 1838-1969
Author: Church of England. St. James’ Church (Heywood, Lancashire); Manchester Archives Central Library
England, Lancashire, Heywood, St. Luke, parish registers, 1733-1906
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Heywood (Lancashire); Manchester Archives Central Library
Parish register transcript of Heywood, Lancaster, England, christenings, 1800-1810
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Heywood (Lancashire); Norman, Bertram William Tuff, 1880-1959
Parish register transcripts, 1745-1800
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Heywood (Lancashire)
Parish registers for St. James’ Church, Heywood, 1838-1980
Author: Church of England. St. James’ Church (Heywood, Lancashire)
Parish registers for St. Luke’s Church, Heywood, 1745-1900
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Heywood (Lancashire)
Record of members, 1840-1912
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heywood Branch (Lancashire); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Rawtenstall Branch (Lancashire); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burnley Branch (Lancashire); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Radcliffe Branch (Lancashire)
Record of members, 1847-1909
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Radcliffe Branch (Lancashire); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heywood Branch (Lancashire)
Record of members, 1855-1907
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Rawtenstall Branch (Lancashire); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heywood Branch (Lancashire); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burnley Branch (Lancashire)
Record of members, 1876-1931
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Manchester District (Lancashire)
The registers of St Luke’s chapel, Heywood
Author: Rogers, Colin D. (Colin Darlington), 1936-
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Heywood, Lancs., Eng
Parish register printouts of Heywood, Lancashire, England ; christenings, 1739-1800
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department
England, Lancashire, Heywood – Genealogy – Handbooks, manuals, etc. ( 1 )
A Handlist on genealogy : material available for consultation in the local collections of Rochdale, Middleton and Heywood area central libraries
Author: Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Library Services
England, Lancashire, Heywood – History ( 1 )
Heywood notes and queries
Author: Green, J. A.
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Bury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Bury
- Poor Law Union: Bury
- Hundred: Salford
- Province: York
