Newton is an area of Hyde, in the

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district, in

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, England; it occupies a narrow strip of land from the River Tame, near Newton Hall, to

Matley Matley is a semi-rural area in the Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. It was formerly a civil parish in Cheshire between 1866 and 1936, when the parish was abolished and the area divided between Dukinfield, Hyde, Greater Manchester, Hyde, Lo ...

, between Hyde and

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. Newton can be divided into four separate parts: * Newton Green * Flowery Field * Newton Moor * Newton The former site of Shaw Hall factory lies on Matley Lane.

Governance

There is one main tier of local government covering Newton, at

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level:

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. The council is a member of the

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, which is led by the directly-elected

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. The Hyde Newton electoral ward is named after Newton. For national elections, the Hyde Newton ward is part of the

Stalybridge and Hyde Stalybridge and Hyde is a constituency in Greater Manchester that was created in 1918. The seat has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by Jonathan Reynolds of the Labour and Co-operative Party since ...

constituency.

Administrative history

Newton was historically a

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in the

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Mottram-in-Longdendale Mottram in Longdendale is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, west of Hadfield and east of Hyde. Within the historic county of Cheshire, it became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. Mottram in Longdendale was an ancient par ...

, which formed part of the

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of Cheshire. From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the

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, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Mottram-in-Longdendale, the civil functions were exercised by each township separately rather than the parish as a whole. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Newton became a

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. In terms of

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es, Newton was separated from Mottram-in-Longdendale in 1841, following the construction of St Mary's Church the previous year. In 1871, the Newton township or civil parish was converted into a

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, administered by an elected local board. The district was also known as Newton Moor and was abolished just six years later in 1877, when the area was absorbed into the Hyde local government district. The Hyde local government district was raised to the status of a

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in 1881. Newton continued to exist as an

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within the borough of Hyde until 1923, when all the parishes within the borough were merged into a single civil parish called Hyde. At the 1921 census (the last before the parish was abolished), Newton had a population of 7,715. The borough of Hyde was abolished in 1974 under the

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. The area became part of the

Metropolitan Borough of Tameside Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, named after the River Tame, which flows through it, and includes the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge. T ...

Transport

The area is served by two railway stations: and ; both are stops on the

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between , and . Services are operated by

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. The main bus route in the area is the 346, which links Hyde with

Ashton-Under-Lyne Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 48,604 at the 2021 census. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, Greater Manchester, ...

; it is operated by

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Education

Newton is served by the following primary and secondary schools:
Bradley Green Primary School

Flowery Field Primary School

Oakfield Primary School

St Paul's Catholic Primary & Nursery School

Hyde Community College

Notable People

* Michael Barber (1934 - 1991),

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and mass spectrometrist, best known for his invention of

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ionisation; born at 166 Lodge Lane in Newton

References

Manchester Evening News
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