HEYWOOD  , a municipal

borough in the Heywood parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 9 m . N. of Manchester on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway . Pop . (1901) 25,458 . It is of modern growth and possesses several handsome churches, chapels and public buildings . The Queen's Park, purchased and laid out at a cost of £11,000 with money which devolved to Queen Victoria in right of her duchy and county palatine of Lancaster, was opened in 1879 . Heywood Hall in the neighbour-hood of the town was the residence of Peter Heywood, who contributed to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot . Heywood owes its rise to the enterprise of the Peels, its first manufactures having been introduced by the father of the first Sir Robert Peel . It is an important seat of the cotton manufacture, and there are power-loom factories, iron foundries, chemical works, boiler-works and railway wagon works . Coal is worked extensively in the neighbourhood . Heywood was incorporated in 1881, and the corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 18 councillors . Area, 366o acres .