OPENSHAW, a township of Lancashire, England, is situated on the Manchester and Stockport Canal, about 3⅜ miles east from the Manchester exchange. The church of St Barnabas dates from 1838-39, and that of St Clement from 1871. The mechanics’ institute (1872) comprises assembly rooms with a reading-room and library. The town possesses railway-carriage and locomotive works, engineering shops, iron-foundries, cotton-mills, dyeworks, chemical-works, and breweries. The area of the township is 579 acres; population in 1871, 11,108; in 1881, 16,153.