Heywood is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It is close to Middleton and Bury, and played a part during the Industrial Revolution as a Lancashire mill town. Heywood can be reached via junction 19 of the M62 Motorway and is also served by the East Lancashire Railway (primarily a tourist attraction). Its main industry in the past has been cotton milling, although this has long since declined. Heywood is now home to one of the largest distribution parks in the North-West, supported by significant motorway links with Manchester and Liverpool.