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Hopwood Hall, near Hopwood, Middleton, now in Greater Manchester, England, was the ancestral home where the Hopwoods, a family of Lancashire landed gentry resided for at least 500 years. There has been a residence on the site of the present Hall since the 12th century. One of two campuses of Hopwood Hall College now sits on a portion of the original estate grounds and was launched by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992. It is also a ward of Rochdale MBC. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 11,604.
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The Hopwood family
The name ˜Hopwode” dates from when a Middleton Knight was granted land where ancient ˜Hopwood Hall” now stands at Middleton near Manchester in Lancashire. The knights Hopwode de Hopwode ruled their estates of Hopwood, Birch, Stanleycliffe and Thornham for many centuries. The village Hopwood is located near Hopwood Hall. For a period of at least five hundred years, the Hopwoods were interred in the churchyard of the parish church of the de Middletons and de Hopwodes at Middleton. The family is documented since before 1380, when Alain de Hopwood was mentioned. Edmund Hopwood was a magistrate and sheriff during the Commonwealth, and a member of the Bury Presbyterian congregation.
The Hall
Hopwood Hall is a Grade II**-listed two-storey brick-and-stone manor house, built in a quadrangle around a timber-framed hall that has been dated back to 1426. Some of the current building dates back to the early 17th century with some late-16th century elements. The 1830s ice house in the grounds is also listed.
After over 500 years, the Hopwoods were no longer living at the estate in 1923. The Hall was utilised by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation (LCC) during World War II. The corporation used it, in conjunction with Blackfriars House to run the firm during the war years. After the war, in 1946, the Hall became a training ground for Roman Catholic teachers under the De La Salle Brothers. On part of the estate grounds, the Brothers built a concrete chapel (1964–65) designed by Frederick Gibberd (architect of Liverpool_Metropolitan_Cathedral), now deconsecrated but a listed building. It has been retained for use by Hopwood Hall College as the Milnrow Building.
Lord Byron at Hopwood Hall
The famed poet arrived at Hopwood Hall at the end of September 1811, and stayed until October 9th. He had come up to try and conclude the settlement of the Byron family estate in Rochdale. When the twenty-year-old poet arrived at Hopwood, the delighted Hopwood ladies greeted him. While waiting for the law case over the disposition of the estate, he spent his days writing part of the finished draft of 'Chide Harold's Pilgrimage', the poem which was to give him his first great success.