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Local Information for Hyde

Hyde is a market town in Tameside, part of Greater Manchester. It was formerly in Cheshire.

Hyde's name derives from 'hide' - a measure of land equivalent to 120 acres (0.5 km²).

With a population around 35,000 it was built on the success of the cotton mills in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Peak Forest Canal runs through Hyde; A branch of the canal leading to Ashton, the other way leads to Woodley, Romiley and Marple. At the end of Woodend Lane one can see Captain Clarks Bridge, commemorating Cpt Clark. Originally there were 40 working mills. By 1872 only 27 remained - of these half closed from 1921-1939. There is one working mill in the town today. Hyde Town Hall dominates the market place area. The large bell in the clocktower is known as Oud Josh, named after Joshua Bradley, a former Mayor of Hyde who had risen up from a poor child worker in the mills. It has the ring of big ben.

There were many mill-owning families including the ...More