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Westhoughton is a small former
mining and cotton town which lies between Bolton
and Wigan. Originally,
Westhoughton was called Westhalcton in 1240, and
Westhalghton in 1327.
Westhoughton is known locally
as keaw yed city, a term meaning
"Cow's head" in the dialect of Lancashire.
The origin of this name is debated, and several
explanations have been proffered. The most widely
believed is a pastoral tale, describing the actions
of a local farmer whose cow had accidentally lodged
its head in a gate: considering the price of the
gate and the comparative prices of a dead or living
cow, the animal was decapitated, an action seen
by inhabitants of surrounding villages as barbaric
and lacking rationality or intelligence, despite
the aforementioned reasoning. The term 'Keaw yed'
was subsequently coined as a derogatory phrase
describing a person of Westhoughton and their
associated stupidity. In a more modern context,
inhabitants of Westhoughton take a mixed reaction
to the term; some see it still as a slanderous
allusion to cerebral inferiority, whereas many
have adopted the term as a point of pride and
heritage. This opinion has become manifest in
the town's symbol, the head of a cow. This is
the most popular story, possibly because of a
photograph existing depicting a scene at the farmer's
gate.
Another explanation derives from the practice
of the inhabitants of Westhoughton challenging
those of Daisy Hill, a small village nearby, for
the dubious trophy of the head of the cow eaten
at a festival: the victors, those of Westhoughton,
were dubbed 'Keaw yeds' by the latter. Yet another
manifests itself in the form of the 'Bone Club',
who on Wakes Mondays carried the bones of a cows
head adorned with regalia to various public houses.
Keaw Yed festival takes place in Westhoughton
on the 24 August each year.
About Manchester
Manchester
is a city in the north-west of
England. The metropolitan borough of Manchester,
with a population of 422,302, lies at the heart
of a large conurbation called Greater
Manchester, with a population of 2,513,468.
Greater Manchester is also a
metropolitan county in England
established in 1974 which covers an area roughly
encompassing the conurbation of Manchester. It
is situated in North West England. It has borders
with the ceremonial counties of Cheshire (inc.
Warrington), Derbyshire, West Yorkshire, Lancashire
(inc. Blackburn with Darwen) and Merseyside. As
well as Manchester, the county includes major
centres such as Salford,
Bury, Bolton,
Stockport and Wigan.
Greater Manchester is not entirely built-up. Although
Manchester forms a conurbation along with Salford,
Trafford and Stockport,
other boroughs, such as Wigan
and Bury are clearly separate.
Towns in the
Manchester urban area include Salford,
Sale, Altrincham,
Cheadle, Stockport,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Oldham, Bury,
Rochdale, Stockport
and Stretford. Places
like Trafford and
Salford can be considered
part of the Manchester urban area in a way that
Wigan or Bolton
are not.
The term "Manchester" is often used
to refer to the entire conurbation, much as "London"
is usually used to mean Greater London, but many
of the constituent parts of Greater Manchester,
such as Salford, Wigan and Bolton, also have separate
identities. People from Manchester are called
Mancunians.
Manchester
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