Heywood may refer to:
People
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Heywood (given name) Heywood is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Heywood "Woody" Allen (born 1935), United States comedian, movie director, and jazz clarinetist
* Heywood Banks, United States comedian
* Heywood Broun (1888–1939), Unit ...
, including a list of people with the name
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Heywood (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
Places
Antarctica
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Heywood Island (Antarctica), South Shetland Islands
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Heywood Lake, in Three Lakes Valley, South Orkney Islands
Australia
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Heywood, Victoria
Heywood is a town on the Fitzroy River in the Australian state of Victoria. It is situated at an elevation of 27 metres amidst rolling green hills in an agricultural, pastoral and timbercutting district. Heywood is west of Melbourne at the int ...
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Shire of Heywood
The Shire of Heywood was a local government area about west-southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1856 until 1994.
It was, for most of its life, known as the Shire o ...
, former local government area
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Heywood Island (Western Australia)
United Kingdom
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Heywood, Greater Manchester
Heywood is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the historic county of Lancashire. It had a population of 28,205 at the 2011 Census. The town lies on the south bank of the River Roch, east of Bury, ...
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Municipal Borough of Heywood
The Municipal Borough of Heywood was, from 1881 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England, with borough status and coterminate with the town of Heywood.
Civic history
The first local government in ...
, Lancashire, former local government district
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Heywood (UK Parliament constituency)
Heywood was a county constituency in the county of Lancashire of the House of Commons for the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was represented by one Member of Parliament. The constituency w ...
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Heywood and Middleton (UK Parliament constituency)
Heywood and Middleton is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Chris Clarkson of the Conservative Party.
Constituency profile
The constituency covers the west half of t ...
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Heywood, Norfolk
Heywood is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It was formed in 2003 from a part of the parish of Diss.
It covers an area of and had a population of 175 in 63 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 222 in 79 h ...
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Heywood, Wiltshire
Heywood is a civil parish and small village in the county of Wiltshire in southwestern England. The village is approximately north of Westbury and south of the county town of Trowbridge.
Heywood village, which has approximately 200 inhabitant ...
Other uses
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Heywood's Bank
Heywood's Bank was a private banking firm established and run in Manchester by members of the Heywood family of Pendleton between 1788 and 1874.
Family and banking history
The bank was founded in Manchester by Benjamin Heywood and his two sons, ...
, a private banking firm 1788–1874
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Heywood Chair Factory
The Heywood Chair Factory was a manufacturing facility for bentwood chairs built at 1010-1014 Race St. between N. 10th and N. 11 Streets in 1892 in what is now the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia. It has been converted into condominiums ...
, Philadelphia, U.S.
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Heywood-Wakefield Company
The Heywood-Wakefield Company is an American furniture manufacturer established in 1897. It went on to become a major presence in the US. Its older products are considered collectibles and have been featured on Antiques Roadshow.
History
Heywood ...
, formerly Heywood Brothers, an American furniture manufacturer
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Heywood Preparatory School
Corsham is a historic market town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England. It is at the south-eastern edge of the Cotswolds, just off the A4 national route, southwest of Swindon, southeast of Bristol, northeast of Bath and southwest of ...
, in Corsham, England
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''Heywood''-class attack transport, a class of U.S. Navy ships
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USS ''Heywood'' (APA-6)
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Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods, an American pop music group
See also
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Haywood (disambiguation) Haywood may refer to:
Places Canada
* Haywood, Manitoba
United Kingdom
* Haywood, Herefordshire
* Great Haywood, Staffordshire
* Little Haywood, Staffordshire
United States
* Hayward, California, formerly Haywood
* Haywood, Kentucky
* Haywood, ...
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Heywoodia
''Heywoodia'' is a genus of plants in the Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1907. It contains only one known species, ''Heywoodia lucens'', native to eastern, southeastern, and southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kwa ...
, a genus of plants
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Heywood Hill Literary Prize
The Heywood Hill Literary Prize was awarded yearly to a writer, editor, reviewer, collector or publisher for a lifelong contribution to the enjoyment of books. Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire
Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke ...
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Heywood Manuscript
The Heywood Manuscript is a collection of handwritten copies of letters and poems of the Heywood family, and letters from their relatives and friends, which was completed in 1798, and to which some explanatory passages have been added. Most of the ...
, a collection of handwritten copies of letters and poems of the Heywood family
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Levi Heywood Memorial Library Building
The Levi Heywood Memorial Library Building is an historic library building at 28 Pearl Street in Gardner, Massachusetts. Completed in 1886, it is one of the city's most architecturally distinguished buildings, and a good example of Richardsonian ...
, in Gardner, Massachusetts, U.S.
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R v Heywood ''R v Heywood'' 1994 3 S.C.R. 761 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the concept of fundamental justice in section seven of the Charter. The Court found that section 179(1)(b) of the Criminal Code for vagrancy was overbroad and thus ...
'', a case in the Canadian Supreme Court
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