HEYWOOD, municipal borough, Heywood and Radcliffe parliamentary division, Lancashire, England, 9 m. N. of Man chester on the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931') 25,967. It is of mod ern growth. The Queen's park (opened 5879) was laid out at a cost of f I i,000 with money which devolved to Queen Victoria from her duchy and county palatine of Lancaster. Heywood owes its rise to the Peels, its first manufactures being 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. Area, 3,658 acres.