Tameside

Tameside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England, named after the River Tame. Administrative center is the city of Ashton -under- Lyne. Other important towns in the Borough are Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Haughton Green, Hyde, Longdendale, Mossley and Stalybridge.

The reorganization of the limits and the capabilities of local authorities led in 1974 to form the Metropolitan Borough. Were fused while the Municipal Boroughs Ashton -under- Lyen, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge, and the urban districts of Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Longdendale. These authorities previously belonged to the counties of Cheshire and Lancashire, as well as a small part in Yorkshire.

1986 Tameside was actually a Unitary Authority, as the central government dissolved the overall management of Greater Manchester. Tameside was for ceremonial purposes part of Greater Manchester, as well as for individual higher-level tasks such as police, fire and public transport.