Tameside
Tameside is a conurbation on the east side of Greater Manchester, with Ashton-under-Lyne its main town. Its visitor attractions reflect its role as a junction of the canal network, which revolutionised industry and transport in the 19th century.
- Type: metropolitan borough with 240,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England
- Also known as: “GB-TAM”, “Тэймсайд”, “تامساید”, “テームサイド”, and “泰姆賽德”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ashton-under-Lyne railway station and Stalybridge railway station.
Ashton-under-Lyne railway station
Railway station
Photo: Hassocks5489, Public domain.Stalybridge railway station
Railway station
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.Ashton Sixth Form College
College
Ashton Sixth Form College is a sixth form college in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oldham and Coppice.
Coppice
Suburb
Coppice is a locality and urban/suburban area the town of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.
Tameside
Latitude
53.5° or 53° 30′ north
Longitude
-2.0833° or 2° 5′ west
Population
240,000
Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)
Abbreviation
“TAM”
UN/LOCODE
GB TAM
Open location code
9C5VGW28+2M
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Tameside” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “бора Тэймсайд”
- Breton: “Tameside”
- Catalan: “Tameside”
- Cebuano: “Borough of Tameside”
- Chinese: “坦姆賽德”
- Chinese: “坦姆赛德”
- Chinese: “塔姆赛德”
- Danish: “Metropolitan Borough of Tameside”
- Dutch: “Tameside”
- Esperanto: “Tameside”
- French: “Tameside”
- Georgian: “ტეიმსაიდი”
- German: “Tameside”
- Irish: “Tameside”
- Italian: “Tameside”
- Japanese: “テイムサイド”
- Korean: “테임사이드”
- Latvian: “Teimsaida”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tameside”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Tameside”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tameside”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tameside”
- Norwegian: “Tameside”
- Persian: “تیمساید”
- Polish: “Tameside”
- Romanian: “Tameside”
- Russian: “Теймсайд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tameside”
- Spanish: “Tameside”
- Swedish: “Borough of Tameside”
- Swedish: “Tameside”
- Tumbuka: “Tameside”
- Turkish: “Tameside”
- Urdu: “ٹیمسائڈ”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Tameside”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hurst Cross and Hurst.
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