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Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/
Borough of Tameside
Geography
Status:Metropolitan borough
Region:North West England
Ceremonial County:Greater Manchester
Historic Counties:Cheshire, Lancashire, small part in Yorkshire
Area:
- Total		Ranked 242nd
103.17 km²
Admin. HQ:Ashton-under-Lyne
ONS code:00BT
Demographics
Population:
- Total ()
- Density		Ranked

/ km²
Ethnicity:94.6% White
4.0% S.Asian
Politics
Leadership:Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:Andrew Gwynne, David Heyes, James Purnell
Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in north west England. It lies 7 miles east of Manchester and consists of the nine towns of Ashton-under-Lyne (where the council is based), Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Longdendale, Mossley and Stalybridge which were brought together under a single council in 1974.

It borders onto the county of 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. It is named after the River Tame, which runs through it.

History

Tameside was created on 1 April 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972 as one of the ten districts of Greater Manchester. It replaced the earlier municipal boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley, and Stalybridge, and the urban districts of Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden and Longendale. It took in areas from both Cheshire and Lancashire (and a very small area of Yorkshire). In 1986 Tameside became an effective unitary authority when the Greater Manchester County Council was abolished.

Politics

The boundaries of three parliamentary constituencies cover Tameside Metropolitan Borough. These are:

The Leader of the Council is Councillor Roy Oldham CBE, who is currently the longest serving council leader in the United Kingdom. He first took up the post in 1980, a year after the Labour Party re-gained control of the council from the Conservatives. He has held the post ever since. He represents the Longdendale Ward for the Labour Party. Some people, however, think that he should retire as a BMW was leased by the Council for him and his friends to be escorted to functions in, rather that spending the money of policing local streets and controlling increading crime levels.

Localities

Towns, villages and localities in Tameside include:

  • Some Locals in Haughton Green and Haughton Dale however think that the village and small hamlet should be removed from Tameside as they have not done much for the area. Haughton Green and Haughton Dale, which is looked after and preserved well by the locals, is the most deprived area in the United Kingdom.

Parishes

  1. Mossley (Town)

Unparished Areas

showing former status (prior to 1974)

  1. Ashton under Lyne (Municipal Borough)
  2. Audenshaw (Urban District)
  3. Denton (Urban District)
  4. Droylsden (Urban District)
  5. Dukinfield (Municipal Borough)
  6. Hyde (Municipal Borough)
  7. Longdendale (Urban District)
  8. Stalybridge (Municipal Borough)

Places of interest

  • Ashton Market- suffering a serious fire, which caused a lot of disruption in the town, has now been rebuilt.

External Links

Local government in Greater Manchester | Metropolitan boroughs

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