Rhodes is a suburb of the town of Middleton,[1] in the Rochdale district of Greater Manchester, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 2917.[2]
| Rhodes | |
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  Rhodes Location within Greater Manchester | |
| Area | 0.552 km2 (0.213 sq mi) |
| Population | 2,917 (2018 estimate) |
| • Density | 5,284/km2 (13,690/sq mi) |
| Metropolitan borough | |
| Metropolitan county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Amenities
editRhodes has a church called All Saints[3] on Manchester Old Road,[4] a primary school called Little Heaton Church of England Primary School on Boardman Lane[5] and a hotel called the Comfort Inn Manchester North on Manchester Old Road.[6] Rhodes formerly had a Primitive Methodist church on Chapel Street.[7]
History
editRhodes was a chapelry in Middleton parish.[8] From the late 1700s it became the site of a bleaching and calico printing works established by Daniel Burton (1744-1812) in conjunction with his cotton mill nearby in the centre of Middleton.[9] The works passed into the hands of Salis Schwabe (1800-1853) in December 1832, who built up what according to the ODNB was "the largest calico-printing complex in Britain, covering an area of 31 acres, famously boasting the tallest factory chimney in the industrial north (some said in Europe), and employing a labour force of more than 750."[10][11][12] The chimney, nicknamed the "Colossus of Rhodes",[13] was ultimately demolished brick by brick between 1979 and 1982, and the land around it redeveloped for housing.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Middleton Area Guide". McGowan Homes. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Rhodes". City Population De. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ "Home". All Saints Church, Rhodes. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ "All Saints, Rhodes, Church of England". GENUKI. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ "Little Heaton CE Primary School". Little Heaton CE Primary School. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ "Comfort Inn Manchester North". Rochdale Borough Council. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ "Chapel Street Primitive Methodist, Rhodes". GENUKI. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ "History of Rhodes, in Rochdale and Lancashire". A Vision of Britain through Time. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ^ Charles Hulbert, Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life. Shrewsbury: 1852, p. 164.
- ^ Bill Williams (2004), Schwabe, Salis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Accessed 1 September 2023
- ^ "The Schwabes". Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Townships: Middleton". British History Online. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- ^ Frank Wightman, The Colossus of Rhodes, Manchester Archives via flickr.
- ^ Damon Wilkinson, 'He bought a chimney for £5 and spent years taking it down it by hand', Manchester Evening News, 17 October 2020
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