Rhodes, Greater Manchester

Rhodes
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	Rochdale
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Greater Manchester 53°32′41″N2°13′37″W / 53.5447°N 2.2269°W / 53.5447; -2.2269

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 2,917. ^[2]

Amenities

Rhodes 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

Rhodes 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

1. "Middleton Area Guide". McGowan Homes. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
2. "Rhodes". City Population De. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
3. "Home". All Saints Church, Rhodes. Archived from the original on 13 June 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
4. "All Saints, Rhodes, Church of England". GENUKI . Retrieved 14 June 2020.
5. "Little Heaton CE Primary School". Little Heaton CE Primary School. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
6. "Comfort Inn Manchester North". Rochdale Borough Council . Retrieved 14 June 2020.
7. "Chapel Street Primitive Methodist, Rhodes". GENUKI. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
8. "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.
9. Charles Hulbert, Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life. Shrewsbury: 1852, p. 164.
10. Bill Williams (2004), Schwabe, Salis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Accessed 1 September 2023
11. "The Schwabes". Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
12. "Townships: Middleton". British History Online. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
13. Frank Wightman, The Colossus of Rhodes, Manchester Archives via flickr.
14. Damon Wilkinson, 'He bought a chimney for £5 and spent years taking it down it by hand', Manchester Evening News , 17 October 2020