Hopwood Award For Poetry
Hopwood may refer to: People * Hopwood (surname) Places ; Australia * Hopwood Beach, Tasmania ; United Kingdom *Hopwood Hall, near Manchester * Hopwood, Greater Manchester * Hopwood, Worcestershire ; United States * Hopwood, Pennsylvania Other uses *''Hopwood v. Texas ''Hopwood v. Texas'', 78 F.3d 932 (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 5th Cir. 1996), was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since ''Regents of the University of ...'', an American court case in 1996 concerning affirmative action * Hopwood Award, a literary scholarship awarded by the University of Michigan {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Hopwood (surname)
Hopwood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Tindell Hopwood (1897-1969), British palaeontologist * Avery Hopwood, American playwright * David Hopwood, British geneticist * John Hopwood, colonial-era settler of Western Pennsylvania * John Hopwood, English cricketer * Len Hopwood, English cricketer * Mererid Hopwood, Welsh poet * Ronald Arthur Hopwood (1868–1949), rear admiral, Royal Navy * Shon Hopwood Shon Robert Hopwood (born June 11, 1975) is an American appellate lawyer and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Hopwood became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer who served time in prison for bank robbery. While in prison, he st ...

Hopwood Beach, Tasmania
Hopwood may refer to: People *Hopwood (surname) Places ; Australia *Hopwood Beach, Tasmania ; United Kingdom *Hopwood Hall, near Manchester *Hopwood, Greater Manchester *Hopwood, Worcestershire ; United States *Hopwood, Pennsylvania Other uses *'' Hopwood v. Texas'', an American court case in 1996 concerning affirmative action *Hopwood Award The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the class of 1905 of the University of Michigan, ...

Hopwood Hall
Hopwood Hall is a Grade II* historic house in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, which was the ancestral country home of the landed gentry family of Hopwood who held it from the 12th century, passing to the Gregge (later Gregge-Hopwood, then Hopwood) family and remaining in their possession until was closed up in 1922 and the heirs moved out. The Hall was sold in 1946, and after a series of temporary residents, by the 1980s it had fallen into disrepair; beginning in 2018 it was under renovation by the new owner, an American actor who is a distant relative of the Hopwoods. Hopwood Hall was founded as a moated site. Later, the property had pleasure grounds and an extensive park with scattered woods. Features in the grounds included a kitchen garden, ice house, ha-ha, Italian garden, fountain, corn mill and small cross-shaped bower or grotto. Hopwood Hall also gives its name to an electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, and to Hopwood Hall College, a furt ...
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Hopwood, Greater Manchester
Hopwood is a suburb of Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north of the M62 motorway. During the Middle Ages, Hopwood formed a township within the Middleton ecclesiastical parish of the Salfordshire hundred of Lancashire. John Rhodes was one of the victims of the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. He died several weeks after the event and his body was dissected by order of magistrates wishing to prove his death was not a result of Peterloo. Hopwood has a primary school and a fire station for the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) is the statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. It is part of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. GMFRS covers an area of .... It also has a dentist, petrol station/shop and a cafe. Transport Hopwood is served by a number of buses including 162, 163, and 164. Ho ...
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Hopwood, Worcestershire
Hopwood is a small settlement in Worcestershire, located south of Birmingham, England on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The settlement is developed around an inn, where users of the canal would have broken their journey. Today's Hopwood is the location of Hopwood Park services, a motorway service station on the M42 motorway. Places nearby include: Barnt Green, Alvechurch Alvechurch ( ) is a large village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove district in northeast Worcestershire, England, in the valley of the River Arrow. The Lickey Hills Country Park is 2.5 miles (4 km) to the northwest. It is south of Bir ..., Bittell Reservoir and Longbridge. Villages in Worcestershire {{Worcestershire-geo-stub ...
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Hopwood, Pennsylvania
Hopwood is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,090 at the 2010 census, up from 2,006 at the 2000 census. It is located in North Union and South Union townships. The village was named after John Hopwood. Geography Hopwood is located in central Fayette County at (39.874145, -79.703385). It is bordered to the north by East Uniontown. U.S. Route 40 Business (National Pike) runs through the center of Hopwood and forms the border between North and South Union townships. The center of Uniontown is to the northwest via National Pike. U.S. Route 40 forms a four-lane bypass around the south side of Uniontown, intersecting National Pike at the south end of Hopwood. Via US 40 it is southeast to Cumberland, Maryland, and northwest to Washington, Pennsylvania. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Hopwood CDP has a total area of , all of it land. The community sits at the western base of Chestnut Ridge, th ...
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Hopwood V
Hopwood may refer to: People *Hopwood (surname) Places ; Australia *Hopwood Beach, Tasmania ; United Kingdom *Hopwood Hall, near Manchester *Hopwood, Greater Manchester *Hopwood, Worcestershire ; United States *Hopwood, Pennsylvania Other uses *'' Hopwood v. Texas'', an American court case in 1996 concerning affirmative action *Hopwood Award The Hopwood Awards are a major scholarship program at the University of Michigan, founded by Avery Hopwood. Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the class of 1905 of the University of Michigan, ...