[3] In 1828 Thomas and Richard Heywood left the family business, which was carried on by Benjamin.
[5] Thomas Heywood purchased Hope End, a mansion in Herefordshire, near Ledbury.
[3] It was sold in 1832 by Edward Moulton-Barrett, father of Elizabeth Barrett Browning who had lived there as a child; the sale was by auction on 25 August.
Before leaving Manchester Heywood collected a library of local books, which was dispersed in a sale in 1835.
[3] In 1826 Heywood printed a pamphlet on The Earls of Derby and the Verse Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Manchester; it was reprinted in 1853 by the Chetham Society.
In 1829 he annotated and printed The most Pleasant Song of Lady Bessy, the eldest Daughter of King Edward the Fourth.
[3] Heywood married in 1823 Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the merchant John Barton (1770–1831) of Swinton, Lancashire, owner of Saxby Hall.