Place:Tameside (metropolitan borough), Greater Manchester, England

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NameTameside (metropolitan borough)
Alt namesTamesidesource: from redirect
TypeMetropolitan area
Coordinates53.49°N 2.084°W
Located inGreater Manchester, England     (1974 - )
See alsoLancashire, Englandcounty covering the area prior to 1974
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The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after the River Tame, which flows through the borough and spans the nine towns which had previously been municipal boroughs or urban districts. Its western border is approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Manchester city centre. It borders Derbyshire to the east, the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham to the north, the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport to the south, and the City of Manchester to the west. Tameside has a population of 214,400.

The settlements in Tameside were small townships centred around agriculture until the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The towns of the borough grew and became involved in the cotton industry, which dominated the local economy.

The current borough was created in 1974 as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972. Since then the area has been administered by Tameside Borough Council. It took over the local government functions of nine districts which were formerly in the administrative counties of Lancashire and of Cheshire.

It included from Lancashire:


and from Cheshire:

In 1986 Tameside effectively became a unitary authority with the abolition of the Greater Manchester County Council.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Tameside.

Research Tips

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  • The borough has placed online a database of the Boroughs Burial and Cremation Registers with over 300,000 records from Dukinfield Crematorium and Cemetery (opened 1866) and the cemeteries of Ashton (opened 1891), Audenshaw (opened 1905), Denton (opened 1895), Droyslden (opened 1894), Hyde (opened 1894), Mossley (opened 1877) and Mottram (opened 1861). The opening dates are from Tameside Local and Family History. (database advised July 2019)
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