Godley, Greater Manchester on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Godley is a suburb of Hyde, 
The area formed part of the
- Godley parishVision of Britain
- Hyde MB The earliest recorded agriculture in Tameside east of the River Tame was in Godley, from 1211–1249.Nevell (1991), p. 52. In 1851, Godley Reservoir was completed.
IST Journal
Summer 2012 The factory was sold to Maypole Dairies in 1902 and later used by
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tam ...
, England.
The area formed part of the municipal borough of Hyde
Hyde is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 34,003 in 2011.
Historically in Cheshire, it is northeast of Stockport, west of Glossop and east of Manchester.
History Early history
Newton Hall was pr ...
in Cheshire from 1881 to 1974, when it became part of the metropolitan borough of Tameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is named after the River Tame, which flows through the borough, and includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, ...
.Vision of Britain- Godley parishVision of Britain
- Hyde MB The earliest recorded agriculture in Tameside east of the River Tame was in Godley, from 1211–1249.Nevell (1991), p. 52. In 1851, Godley Reservoir was completed.
Industry
In the early 1880s, John Broomer developed an early form of margarine called Butterine. He established a factory in the Olive Tree works, a former hat factory on Mottram Road previously occupied by Henry Taylor Wrigley. In 1888, the Danish margarine manufacturer Otto Monsted acquired the Olive Tree works.Summer 2012 The factory was sold to Maypole Dairies in 1902 and later used by
Walls
Walls may refer to:
*The plural of wall, a structure
*Walls (surname), a list of notable people with the surname
Places
* Walls, Louisiana, United States
* Walls, Mississippi, United States
* Walls, Ontario, neighborhood in Perry, Ontario, C ...
to manufacture ice cream and meat products.
Transport
Godley is served byGodley railway station
Godley railway station serves the Godley area of Hyde, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It is east of Manchester Piccadilly on the Manchester-Glossop Line.
It was built to replace the original Godley Junction station. It is placed a ...
, which replaced the nearby Godley East railway station
Godley East was a railway station in the Godley area of Hyde, Tameside, Greater Manchester, on the Woodhead Line.
Early history
On 17 November 1841, Godley was the temporary terminus of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railwa ...
.
References
;Notes ;Bibliography * Areas of Greater Manchester Geography of Tameside Hyde, Greater Manchester {{GreaterManchester-geo-stub