Tameside

Tameside is a borough on the east side of , with Ashton-under-Lyne its main town. There are over 300 listed buildings in Tameside and three Scheduled Ancient Monuments, including Buckton Castle. In 2019 the population was 226,000.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ashton-under-Lyne railway station and Stalybridge railway station.

Railway station
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serves the town of , in , England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line 6½ miles east of Manchester Victoria and is operated by Northern Trains.

Railway station
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serves , , England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line, 7+1⁄2 miles east of Manchester Piccadilly and 8+1⁄4 miles east of Manchester Victoria. The station is managed by TransPennine Express.

College
is a sixth form college in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. Founded in 1928 as Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School, the college is selective with an offer rate of 28%.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oldham and Coppice.

is a former textile town in , 7 miles northeast of city centre in the foothills of the Pennines. The main reason to visit is to explore the villages and valleys leading into the Pennines. In 2011 the population was over 96,000.

Suburb
is a locality and urban/suburban area the town of , in , . It is located to the south of Oldham town centre and is contiguous with other areas of Oldham including , , Hollins, and Primrose Bank.

Town
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is a market town in Tameside, , England. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census. Historically in , it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the , six miles east of .

Tameside

Latitude
53.5° or 53° 30′ north
Longitude
-2.0833° or 2° 5′ west
Population
223,000
Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)
Abbreviation
“TAM”
United Nations Location Code
GB TAM
Open location code
9C5VGW28+2M
Geo­Names ID
3333208
Wiki­data ID
Q1423078
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Welsh—“Tameside” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: бора Тэймсайд
  • Belarusian: Тэймсайд
  • Breton: Tameside
  • Catalan: Tameside
  • Cebuano: Borough of Tameside
  • Chinese: Tameside
  • Chinese: 坦姆賽德
  • Chinese: 坦姆赛德
  • Chinese: 塔姆赛德
  • Chinese: 泰姆賽德
  • Danish: Metropolitan Borough of Tameside
  • Dutch: Tameside
  • Esperanto: Tameside
  • French: Tameside
  • German: GB-TAM
  • German: Tameside
  • Irish: Tameside
  • Italian: Tameside
  • Japanese: テームサイド
  • 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: تامساید
  • 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

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