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Hollinwood is an area of Oldham, and an electoral ward of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. Bisected by the A62 road, Hollinwood is located in the southwest of Oldham, contiguous with the towns of Chadderton and Failsworth, at Junction 22 of the M60 motorway. In 2001 its resident population was 9,909.〔(Hollinwood ), 2001 United Kingdom Census, neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Accessed 29 March 2007.〕 ==History== Historically a part of Lancashire, Hollinwood in pre-industrial times was a moor or common in the township of Chadderton, but a 1713 court settlement stipulated that Hollinwood should be within Oldham, with the exception of retained by Chadderton. The mid to late 18th century saw Hollinwood develop into a village.〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ywkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA385&lpg=RA1-PA385&dq=gazetteer+lancashire+hollinwood&source=bl&ots=fWB3bxFxNv&sig=9DFin1A1SxtREFA6LEwE6O7S24c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwADgUahUKEwjjycyCxdPGAhVkCNsKHQE5DZw#v=onepage&q=gazetteer%20lancashire%20hollinwood&f=false〕 In 1880 there were further exchanges of land in the Hollinwood area between Oldham Borough and Chadderton township.〔 James Butterworth (1826) described it as being of 66.5 Cheshire acres (= approx 140 statute acres). It was enclosed by the Oldham Enclosure Acts (42 and 43 George III; May 1802). Hollinwood's mills such as the Heron, Fox, Asia, Wharf, Richmond and Park were later built on what had been the Hollinwood Common. The Chapel Road playing fields is one of the few open spaces remaining in the district. The pitches occupy the site of a former reservoir serving a now defunct stretch of the Hollinwood Branch Canal. Long existing as an industrial district, Hollinwood is today home to the Northern Counties Housing Association,〔(Northern Counties Housing Association Limited ), housingcorp.gov.uk, accessed 28 March 2007.〕 and Mirror Colour Print Ltd; the printing division of the Trinity Mirror group, which prints and distributes thirty-six major newspapers, and employs five hundred staff.〔(Oldham's Economic Profile – Printing & Publishing ), oldham.gov.uk. Accessed 19 March 2007.〕 The area was initially largely occupied by workers in Oldham's cotton mills and miners at the large collieries at Oak and Bower, and several smaller ones. Much of Hollinwood's more recent growth was due to the Ferranti factory which produced power transformers in its heyday. Later the factory produced container lifting trucks as the building had the height to do so. The transformer works building, built after the war on the old Bower site, is now used as a newspaper printing plant. A neighbouring, much older, Ferranti factory produced electricity meters. The meter factory was sold to Siemens in the 1980s and became known as FML; Siemens later closed the FML factory. Hollinwood was home to the Roxy Cinema which was popular for both the local and wider community. However, the cinema closed in 2005 after the owner retired, and the building was demolished between February and March 2007. In total there used to be five cinemas in Hollinwood: La Scala; Gem; Queens; Regal and Roxy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hollinwood, Greater Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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