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Borough of Tameside
Metropolitan borough
Tameside from Werneth Low
Tameside fromWerneth Low
Coat of arms of Borough of Tameside
Coat of arms
Motto(s):
Industry and integrity
Tameside shown within Greater Manchester
Tameside shown withinGreater Manchester
Coordinates:53°29′24″N2°5′39″W/ 53.49000°N 2.09417°W/53.49000; -2.09417
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
CountryEngland
RegionNorth West
Ceremonial countyandcity regionGreater Manchester
Incorporated1 April 1974
Named forRiver Tame
Administrative HQAshton-under-Lyne
Government
[1]
• TypeMetropolitanborough
• BodyTameside Metropolitan Borough Council
•ExecutiveLeader and cabinet
•ControlLabour
•LeaderGerald Cooney (L)
•MayorBetty Affleck
•MPs
3 MPs
Area
[2]
• Total40 sq mi (103 km2)
• Rank195th
Population
(2022)[3]
• Total232,753
• Rank80th
• Density5,840/sq mi (2,256/km2)
Ethnicity(2021)
[4]
•Ethnic groups
List
Religion(2021)
[4]
•Religion
List
Time zoneUTC+0(GMT)
• Summer (DST)UTC+1(BST)
Postcode area
Dialling code
  • 01457
  • 0161
ISO 3166 codeGB-TAM
GSS codeE08000008
Websitetameside.gov.uk

Tamesideis ametropolitan boroughofGreater Manchester,England, named after theRiver Tame,which flows through it, and includes the towns ofAshton-under-Lyne,Audenshaw,Denton,Droylsden,Dukinfield,Hyde,MossleyandStalybridge.Tameside is bordered by the metropolitan boroughs ofStockportto the south,Oldhamto the north and northeast,Manchesterto the west, and to the east by theBorough of High PeakinDerbyshire.As of 2022,the population of Tameside was 232,753, making it the 8th-most populous borough of Greater Manchester by population.[3]

There are over 300listed buildingsin Tameside and threeScheduled Ancient Monuments,includingBuckton Castle.Its townships were agricultural until theIndustrial Revolutionwhen they grew with the cotton industry. The borough was created in 1974 under theLocal Government Act 1972.

History

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The history of the area stretches back up to 10,000 years; there are 22Mesolithicsites in Tameside, the oldest dating to around 8000 BC; 21 of the 22 sites are in the hilly uplands in the north east of the borough.[5]Evidence ofNeolithic[6]andBronze Ageactivity is more limited in the borough, although the Bronze Age Stalybridge Cairn is the most complete prehistoric funerary monument in the borough.[7]The people in the area changed from hunter-gatherers to farmers around 2500 BC–1500 BC due to climate change.[8]Werneth Low is the most likelyIron Agefarmstead site in the borough, probably dating to the late 1st millennium BC.[9]Before the Roman conquest of Britain in the 1st century AD, the area was probably part of the territory of theBrigantes,theCeltictribe controlling most of what is now north west England.[10]

The area came under control of theRoman Empirein the second half of the 1st century. Roads through the area were established fromArdotaliafortinDerbyshiretoMamucium(Manchester) west of Tameside andCastleshaw Roman fortin the north.[11]Romano-British finds in the borough include abog bodyin Ashton Moss, occupation sites at Werneth Low, Harridge Pike, Roe Cross, and Mottram.[12]A 4th-century coin hoard was found in Denton and is one of only four hoards from the 4th century in the Merseybasin.[13]A Byzantine coin from the 6th or 7th centuries, also found in Denton, indicates continued or renewed occupation once the Romans left Britain in the early 5th century.[14]

Nico Ditch, an earthwork stretching from Stretford to Ashton-under-Lyne, is evidence ofAnglo-Saxonactivity in Tameside. It was probably dug between the 7th and 9th centuries and may have been used as a boundary between the kingdoms ofMerciaandNorthumbria.[15]Further evidence of Anglo-Saxon era activity in Tameside comes from the derivation of settlement names fromOld Englishsuch as -tun,meaning farmstead, andleahmeaning clearing.[16]

According to theDomesday Surveyof 1086, Tameside was divided into fourmanors,those of Tintwistle, Hollingworth, Werneth, and Mottram. The land east of the River Tame was in theHundred of Hamestanin Cheshire and held by theEarl of Chesterwhile to the west of the river was in theHundred of SalfordunderRoger de Poitevin.[17]These manors were divided to create further manors, so that by the 13th century most of them were owned by local families and remained in the hands of the same families until the 16th century.[18]Manorialism continued as the main form of administration and governance until the mid-19th century.[19]

The Industrial Revolution had a significant impact on Tameside; the area, whose main towns had previously been Ashton-under-Lyne and Mottram-in-Longdendale, was transformed from a collection of the rural, farming communities intomill towns.The towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge have been described as "amongst the most famous mills towns in the North West".[20]With only a brief interruption for theLancashire Cotton Famineof 1861 to 1865, factories producing and processing textiles were the main industry in Tameside from the late-18th century until the mid-20th century.[20][21]

In 1964, Dukinfield Borough Council convened a meeting of neighbouring local authorities with the aim of formulating a policy of cross-authority social improvement for the districts in the Tame Valley.[22]Followingdeindustrialisation,the area had suffered "gross-neglect" and had large areas of housing unsuitable for human habitation.[22]This joint enterprise comprised the nine districts that would become Tameside ten years later, plus theCounty Borough of Stockport.This collective agreed on creating "a linear park in the valley [of the River Tame] for the use of the townspeople and as a major recreational resource within the Manchester metropolis".[22]

Tameside was created on 1 April 1974, by theLocal Government Act 1972as one of the ten metropolitan districts of Greater Manchester. The new district covered the territory of nine former districts which were abolished at the same time:[23]

Dukinfield, Hyde, Longdendale and Stalybridge had been in theadministrative countyofCheshireprior to the 1974 reforms, whilst the other five districts had been in the administrative county ofLancashire.

A name for the metropolitan borough proved problematic.[24]TheRedcliffe-Maud Reporthad used the name Ashton-Hyde, but double-barrelled names were prohibited for the new districts.[24]Had Ashton-under-Lyne been acounty borough,or had had a less common name, "it might have been chosen as the new name" for the new district.[24]The eight other towns objected, adamant that "a new name should be found".[24]Thirty suggestions were put forward, including Brigantia, Clarendon, Hartshead, Kayborough, Tame, Ninetowns, and West Pennine, with Hartshead (with reference toHartshead Pike) being the most popular throughout most of the consultation period.[24]However, the name Tameside (with reference to the River Tame, but a concocted name with no historical basis) won 15 votes to Hartshead's 10 in a final stage of voting.[24][25]The new district was awardedborough statusfrom its creation, allowing the chairman of the council to take the title of mayor.[26]In 1986 Tameside effectively became aunitary authoritywith the abolition of theGreater Manchester County Council.

Geography

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Werneth Low with theGreater Manchester Urban Areain the background.
View from Werneth Low over Hyde (left, foreground), towards Ashton-under-Lyne (centre) in the background.

Tameside bordersHigh PeakinDerbyshireto the east, theMetropolitan Borough of Oldhamto the north, theMetropolitan Borough of Stockportto the south, and theCity of Manchesterto the west. Tameside features flat lowlands in the west and highlands in the east where the western edge of thePenninesencroaches on the borough.[27]The hills in the east includeHartshead PikeandWerneth Lowwhich is also a country park. As well as coal measures running north–south through the centre of the borough, there are areas of peat in the north east and there are large areas ofboulder clayall over Tameside.[28]Ashton Moss is apeat bogcovering about 107 hectares (260 acres) and Denton Moor is an area of about 81 hectares (200 acres) of peat.[29]

A view over Tameside, towardsManchester city centre.

Waterways in Tameside include the riversMedlockandEtherow,which form parts of Tameside's western and eastern boundaries respectively, and the River Tame crosses the borough north to south, giving Tameside its name.[29]TheAshton Canal,theHollinwood Branch Canal,theHuddersfield Narrow Canal,and the Peak Forest Canal all run through the borough. There are also severalreservoirs,including theAudenshaw Reservoirs.Greenspaceaccounts for 63.5% of the Tameside's total area, domestic buildings and gardens comprise 17.4%, and the rest is made up of roads and non-domestic buildings.[30]

Localities within the boundaries of Tameside include:Ashton-under-Lyne,Audenshaw,Broadbottom,Carrbrook,Copley,Denton,Droylsden,Dukinfield,Flowery Field,Gee Cross,Godley,Godley Green,Guide Bridge,Hartshead Green,Hattersley,Haughton Green,Hazelhurst,Heyrod,Hollingworth,Hyde,Landslow Green,Luzley,Millbrook,Mossley,Mottram in Longdendale,Newton,Park Bridge,Roe Cross,Stalybridge,Warhill,andWoolley Bridge.

Governance

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Parliamentary constituencies

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The residents of the Tameside are represented in theUnited Kingdom ParliamentbyMembers of Parliament(MPs) for three constituencies.Ashton-under-Lyne,which also includes parts of theMetropolitan Borough of Oldham,is represented byAngela Rayner(Labour).Denton and Reddish,which also covers parts of theMetropolitan Borough of Stockport,is represented byAndrew Gwynne(Labour).Stalybridge and Hyde,which is entirely within Tameside, is represented byJonathan Reynolds(Labour).

Council

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Main article:Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
For historic political control and leadership, seeTameside Metropolitan Borough Council elections.

In 2007,Tameside Metropolitan Borough Councilwas assessed by theAudit Commissionand judged to be "improving strongly" in providing services for local people. Overall the council was awarded "four star" status meaning it was "performing strongly" and "well above minimum requirements", putting it in the top 38% of all local authorities.[31]

Civil parishesform the bottom tier of local government; the parish councils are involved in planning, management of town and parish centres, and promoting tourism.[32]Mossleyis the only civil parish in Tameside. In 2001 9,856 people lived there, 4.6% of the borough's population.[33]

Before becoming a civil parish, Mossley was amunicipal borough.The unparished areas are:Ashton-under-Lyne(municipal borough),Audenshaw(urban district),Denton(urban district),Droylsden(urban district),Dukinfield(municipal borough),Hyde(municipal borough),Longdendale(urban district), andStalybridge(municipal borough). The status of each area before 1974 is shown in brackets. An urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, and Mossley were previously in Lancashire. Dukinfield, Hyde, Longdendale, and Stalybridge were in Cheshire.

Demography

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Ethnicity

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Ethnic Group Year
2001 census[34] 2021 census[35]
Number % Number %
White:Total 201,468 94.6% 197,676 85.6%
White:British 197,487 92.7% 190,305 82.4%
White:Irish 1,943 1,536 0.7
White:Roma 100 <0.05
White:Gypsy or Irish Traveller 112 <0.1
White:Other 2,038 5,623 2.4
Asian or Asian British:Total 9,097 4.3% 21,198 9.1%
Asian or Asian British:Indian 3,087 3,737 1.6
Asian or Asian British:Pakistani 2,596 8,966 3.9
Asian or Asian British:Bangladeshi 2,493 5,842 2.5
Asian or Asian British:Chinese 630 1,402 0.6
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 291 1,251 0.5
Black or Black British: Total 572 5,275 2.3%
Black or Black British: African 160 4,115 1.8
Black or Black British:Caribbean 348 612 0.3
Other Black 64 548 0.2
Mixed or British Mixed: Total 1,681 0.8% 4,963 2.2%
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 670 1,854 0.8
Mixed: White and Black African 238 859 0.4
Mixed: White and Asian 506 1,344 0.6
Mixed: Other Mixed 267 906 0.4
Other: Total 225 1,958 0.8%
Other:Arab 540 0.2
Other: Any other ethnic group 1,418 0.6
Non-White: Total 14.4%
Total 213,043 100% 231,071 100%

At the2011 UK census,the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside had a total population of 219,324. Of the 94,953 households in Tameside, 30.8% were married couples living together, 32.7% were one-person households, 11.5% wereco-habitingcouples and 12.8% were lone parents.[36]

The population density was 2,126/km2(5,510/sq mi) and for every 100 females, there were 96.4 males. Of those aged 16 and over in Tameside, 28.1% had noacademic qualifications,significantly higher than 22.5% in all of England.[36][37]7% of Tameside's residents were born outside the United Kingdom, significantly lower than the national average of 13.8%.[36][38]The largest minority group was Asian, at 6.6% of the population.[36]

In 1841, 8.5% of Tameside's population wasmiddle classcompared to 14% in England and Wales; this increased to 13.1% in 1931 (15% nationally) and 37.0% in 2001 (48% nationally). From 1841 to 1991, theworking classpopulation of Tameside and across the country was in decline, falling steadily from 58.0% (36% nationally) to 22.8% in 1991 (21% nationally). It has since increased slightly, up to 32.9% (26% nationwide). The rest of the population was made up of clerical workers and skilled manual workers.[39]

Population change

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Although Tameside has only existed as a Metropolitan Borough since 1974, the table below details the population change – including the percentage change since the last census 10 years earlier – in the area since 1801 using figures from the towns, villages, andcivil parishesthat would later become constituent parts of Tameside.

Population growthin Tameside since 1801
Year 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931 1941 1951 1961 1971 1981 1991 2001 2011[36]
Population 20,716 27,219 45,440 64,044 103,928 120,183 129,346 138,509 147,672 158,343 175,877 195,353 192,764 190,210 198,492 207,137 213,973 221,067 217,050 219,769 213,043 219,324
% change – +31.4 +66.8 +40.9 +62.3 +15.6 +7.6 +7.1 +6.6 +7.2 +11.1 +11.1 -1.3 -1.3 +4.4 +4.4 +3.3 +3.3 -1.8 +1.3 -3.1 +1.0
Source:A Vision of Britain through Time;accessed 9 January 2016.

Religion

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The following table shows the religious identity of residents residing in Tameside according to the 2011 and the 2021 census results.

Religion 2011[40] 2021[41]
Number % Number %
Christian 140,322 64.0 110,539 47.8
Muslim 9,705 4.4 16,945 7.3
Jewish 89 <0.1 87 <0.1
Hindu 3,223 1.5 3,096 1.3
Sikh 102 <0.1 181 0.1
Buddhism 511 0.2 588 0.3
Other religion 651 0.3 879 0.4
No religion 51,674 23.6 87,910 38.0
Religion not stated 13,047 5.9 10,846 4.7
Total 219,324 100.00% 231,071 100.00%
See also:List of churches in Greater Manchester

Tameside is covered by the Roman Catholic dioceses ofShrewsburyandSalford,[42][43]and the Church of Englanddioceses of Manchester[44]andChester.

There are two Grade I listed churches in Tameside,St Anne's Church,inHaughton,was built in 1881 in theGothic Revivalstyle by J Medland Taylor.[45]St Michael and All Angels' ChurchinAshton-under-Lyneis a 15th-century parish church which was virtually rebuilt in the 19th century. A church on the site dates back to at least 1262.[46][47]St Lawrence's Church,in Denton, is a Grade II* listed building and a timber-framed church. It was remodelled by J Medland Taylor in 1872.[48]

Economy

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IKEA's store in Ashton-under-Lyne, which opened in 2006, was their first in a town centre.

Tameside is currently undergoing redevelopment through the Vision Tameside project which should be completed by 2018.

Vision Tameside – a partnership between Tameside council and Tameside College – is a redevelopment strategy.

Three "advanced learning centres" are being built in central Ashton town and at the college's Beaufort Road home.[citation needed]

Phase one comprises two sites. The new Clarendon Sixth Form College, which began taking students in the autumn of 2015, was officially opened by Coronation Street actress Brooke Vincent on 9 March 2016. The college theatre was named in Brooke's honour.

An "advanced technologies centre" is being built on Stamford Street, Ashton. When it opens in 2017 it will provide a learning facility to support the growth of advanced engineering and technology in Tameside.

Phase two of VisionTameside will create an advanced skills centre for Tameside College alongside a new joint service centre for Tameside Council and partners. The skills centre will provide facilities for students studying a wide range of vocational subjects including hair and beauty, hospitality and catering, bakery and confectionery, travel and tourism and business skills.

Ashton's Victorian town hall and the old water board offices, which are both listed buildings, are being retained. Work should be completed in early 2018.

Phase three will ensure the Beaufort Road campus offers learners modern, inspirational learning spaces. Alongside the new advanced technologies centre, they will have access to facilities for engineering, construction and the built environment, motor-vehicle, sport and public services and health and social care provision

Provision for students with severe learning difficulties and/or disabilities will continue to be based at the Beaufort Road where a new sports academy was opened in February, 2015, by former Manchester United and England footballer Paul Scholes.

In addition, Ashton's old public baths, which lay derelict for many years, has been reborn as a "high-tech business incubator" with help from the European Regional Development Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Work at the mid-Victorian building, which closed as a swimming baths in 1975, has involved cleaning, repairs and the replacement of external stonework. The new office space is housed inside a free-standing timber-clad pod within the former main pool.

At the same time, Ashton's market has been refurbished with the installation of kiosks alongside traditional stalls.

TheAshton Arcadesshopping centre opened in 1995. The centre covers 13,000 square metres (140,000 sq ft) on two floors with over 40 shops. In 2006, after failing twice to gain permission to develop a site in the neighbouring borough ofStockport,IKEAannounced plans to build its first town centre-store in Ashton-under-Lyne. The store is expected to create 500 new jobs as well as attract other businesses to the area.[49]The store opened on 19 October 2006 and covers 27,500 square metres (296,000 sq ft) At the time of its creation, the store was the tallest in Britain.[50]

Life science industries have been identified as growth industries in Greater Manchester and are concentrated in Oldham and Tameside.[51]

Average house prices in Tameside are the 5th lowest of the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester and are prices just 60% of the average price for the England.[52]

Tameside Compared
2011 UK Census Tameside Greater Manchester England
Population of working age 161,459 940,438 38,881,374
Full-time employment 40.6% 31.6% 38.6%
Part-time employment 13.2% 19.6% 13.7%
Self employed 7.4% 4.1% 9.8%
Unemployed 5.0% 3.8% 4.4%
Retired 14.7% 14.6% 13.7%

At the 2011 UK census, Tameside had 161,459 residents aged 16 to 74. 4.3% of these people were students, 4.0% looking after home or family, 6.2% long-term sick or disabled and 2.2% economically inactive for other reasons.[36]

In 2011, of 101,892 residents of Tameside in employment, the industry of employment was 17.7% retail and wholesale, 13.2% manufacturing, 12.4% health and social work, 8.5% construction, 8.3% education, 5.8% public administration and defence, 5.3% transport, 5.0% professional, scientific and technical, 4.8% administrative, 4.5% hotels and restaurants, 4.1% financial, 2.4% information and communication, 1.7% real estate, 1.6% energy and water supply, and 4.5% others.[36]

Landmarks

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See also:List of Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester,Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester,Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester,andList of public art in Greater Manchester
TheChurch of St Michael and All Angels,Mottram in Longdendale,is one of Tameside's Grade II* listed buildings.
View ofBuckton Castlefrom below

In February 2001, Tameside had one Grade I listed buildings, 19 Grade II*, and 289 Grade II.[53]The number of Grade I listed buildings in Tameside has increased to two, these areSt Anne's ChurchinHaughton;[54][55]St Michael and All Angels' ChurchinAshton-under-Lyne.[56][46](Fairbottom Farm Barn, a 17th-century farm building, is listed on the council's website as grade I[57]but is listed by English Heritage as grade II.[58]) In Tameside are three of Greater Manchester'sSites of Special Scientific Interest,Boar Flat, part ofDark Peak,[59]theHollinwood Branch Canal[60]and theHuddersfield Narrow Canal.The Huddersfield Narrow Canal runs for20 miles (32 km)fromHuddersfieldtoAshton-under-Lyne;it is protected for its biological interest, and is "the best example of a flowing eutrophic water system in Greater Manchester".[61]

There are three Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the borough, aBronze Agecairnin Stalybridge,[62]Buckton Castle,andNico Ditch.Buckton Castle is a 12th-centuryenclosure castlenearCarrbrookand was probably built by one of the earls of Chester.[63]The castle lay ruinous by 1360, and has been described as "one of England's most important castles".[64]Nico Ditch is anearthworkrunning fromAshton-under-Lynein the east toStretfordin the west, in the borough ofTrafford.It survives to a depth of 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in some places and is up to 4 metres (13 ft) wide.[15]

Tameside has nine conservation areas: Ashton and Stalybridge town centres; Carrbrook, Copley St. Paul's, and Millbrook in Stalybridge; Fairfield in Droylsden; Mottram-in-Longdendale;Portland Basin;and St. Anne's in Haughton.[65]

The Museum of the Manchester Regiment is housed in Ashton-under-Lyne's town hall. The museum displays relics related to theManchester Regimentincluding fiveVictoria Crossesawarded to members of the regiment.[66]Park Bridge Heritage Centre in the Medlock Valley is a museum dedicated to the history of the settlement of Park Bridge and its industry.[67]Broad Mills Heritage Site, in Broadbottom, preserves the remains of an early 19th-century textile works.[68]Art galleries in the borough include Astley Cheetham Art Gallery in Stalybridge and Central Art Gallery in Ashton-under-Lyne.[69][70]

Tameside has eight designatedLocal Nature Reserveswhich are Knott Hill, Hollinwood Branch Canal, Great Wood, Haughton Dale, Hulmes and Hardy Woods, Castle Clough and Cowbury Dale, Hurst Clough and Rocher Vale. Four more are to be designated.[71]

Education

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See also:List of schools in Tameside

Since 2007 Tameside's schools have been transformed as the result of multimillion-pound investment.

Virtually every high school has been replaced or remodelled. Eighteen primary schools have been rebuilt in recent years and another 20 have undergone major remodelling. In addition, the borough has opened the first entirely new schools in its history: Inspire Academy on Mossley Road, Ashton, and Discovery Academy off Porlock Avenue, Hattersley. Both offer 420 places plus a nursery.

In 2015, GCSE results improved more in Tameside than anywhere else in the North West, and the borough was one of the top 10 nationally for the most improved results.

At Key Stage 4 57.3% of pupils in the borough achieved five or more A* to C grades including English and maths – a 3.6% improvement on the previous year.

In terms of expected progress in English, 73% of pupils make expected progress in Tameside compared to 71% nationally. In maths 66% of pupils make expected progress, in line with the national average of 67%.

At Key Stage 2, 80% of pupils in Tameside achieved level 4+ in reading, writing and maths combined, sustaining the borough's 6% improvement in results from 2013 to 2014.

Media

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In terms of television, Tameside is served byBBC North WestandITV Granadabroadcasting from theWinter HillTV transmitter.[72]

Radio stations for the area are:

The local newspaper is theTameside Reporter,published on Thursdays.[74]

Transport

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Railway

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Fairfield railway station

The borough is served by 13 railway stations:


Tram

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Work on an extension of theManchester Metrolinkcosting £260 million began in 2008. Trams began to run to Droylsden in February 2013 and finally to Ashton in September 2013.

Buses

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Ashton bus station was converted into a new transport interchange. A covered concourse replaced the five island platforms and the site was linked to the Metrolink terminus. It has new waiting areas, bicycle parking and better access to travel information and tickets. Improved pedestrian routes can now take people into the town centre. It was completed in October 2020.[75]

The new Hyde bus station opened on 23 August 2007, having cost £3.7 million to build.

Footpaths

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Tameside Council is responsible for maintaining the public rights of way in the borough, including 145 mi (233 km) of footpaths.[76]

Twin towns

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The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside has formaltwinning linkswith places in China, France and Germany.[77][78](The arrangement withMutare,Zimbabwehas been suspended due to the political unrest in that country.[79])

Some localities were originally twinned with a place within the Metropolitan Borough prior to its creation in 1974.[80][81][82][83][84][85]In the list below the brackets show where the place was twinned with before 1974 and since when.

Sport

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Tameside is home to a number of non-league football teams and a variety of other sports clubs.

The borough have several football teams playing across several levels of the National League System of Football, commonly known as Non League Football, of which several have played as high as theNational LeagueTier 5.

National League North (Tier 6)

Northern Premier League (Tier 7)

(Tier 8)

Only Stalybridge Celtic have played in the Football League, where they were members between 1919 and 1922.

Outside the NLS System, Dukinfield Town (Manchester League Premier Division, Tier 11) and Denton Town (Cheshire League Second Division, Tier 12)

Droylsdenare currently inactive following the events of COVID-19 however have played host to Stretford Paddock from their expansion from Sunday League to the NLS System, and currently play in the Cheshire League Second Division.

Tameside has been home to three players who have been members of winning World Cup squads. Sir Geoff Hurstand James Arnfield were members of the 1966 World Cup winning England side, whilst Simone Perrotta won the World Cup in 2006 with Italy, though he was born in Ashton. All three have been given a statue outside Curzon Ashton's Tameside Stadium.

The Region hosts 2 Rugby Union sides, with Aldwynians the highest ranked side, Currently playing in the ADM Lancashire and Cheshire 1st Division while Ashton Under Lyne RFC play in the 11th Tier. Eric Evans, who was Aldwynians Captain represented England between 1956-58.

Though the Borough does not have a Professional Rugby League side,Oldham Rugby Leaguehave played at several Grounds across Tameside. In 2003 they played several Challenge Cup and League games at Ashton United's Hurst Cross ground, whilst in more modern times when playing Super League sides or when in the Championship Division have played at Stalybridge Celtic's Bower Fold as their regular home isn't suitable for higher division games.

Cricket is heavily represented in the area with all areas hosting several sides with theGreater Manchester Cricket League,Denton having the most within the higher tiers of the League System (Denton St Lawrence and Denton West Cricket Club both playing in the Premier Division), Mottram being represented in the Top Division by Roe Cross and Mottram CC in the third level of the League, Hyde are represented with Flowery Field CC in the 2nd tier and Dukinfield CC in the Tier 3 Championship Division.

Tameside Netball Club play in the Highest Amateur Division of the sport (formally the Top Division before the introduction of the Professional Super League)

See also

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References

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