Hyde is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 31,253. Historically part of Cheshire, it is 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Stockport, 6.3 miles (10.1 km) west of Glossop and 7.0 miles (11.3 km) east of Manchester.
Newton Hall was present in the 13th century. The area formed a township of the parish of Stockport, St Mary. Its name is derived from the hide, a m...
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Hyde is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 31,253. Historically part of Cheshire, it is 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Stockport, 6.3 miles (10.1 km) west of Glossop and 7.0 miles (11.3 km) east of Manchester.
Newton Hall was present in the 13th century. The area formed a township of the parish of Stockport, St Mary. Its name is derived from the hide, a measure of land for taxation purposes, taken to be that area of land necessary to support a peasant family. In later times it was taken to be equivalent to 120 acres (0.5 km²).
The population of Hyde increased due to the success of the cotton mills during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At one stage there were forty working mills. By 1872 only twenty-seven remained. Half of the remaining mills closed between 1921 and 1939. There is one working mill in the town today. There were many mill owning families,...
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