Newton, Greater Manchester

Area of Hyde, Greater Manchester, England

Human settlement in England

Region

53°27′36″N 2°05′24″W / 53.460°N 2.090°W / 53.460; -2.090

Newton is an area of Hyde, Greater Manchester, England; it occupies a narrow strip of land from the River Tame, near Newton Hall, to Matley, between Hyde and Dukinfield.

Newton can be divided into four separate parts:

The former site of Shaw Hall factory lies on Matley Lane.

Governance

Newton is part of the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency, whose Member of Parliament is currently Jonathan Reynolds^[1] of the Labour Co-operative party. Newton was previously in the North West England European Parliament constituency.

Newton is in Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council,^[2] which was formed in 1974 and whose council offices are in Ashton-Under-Lyne.

The area is served by two railway stations: Newton for Hyde and Flowery Field; both are stops on the Glossop Line between Manchester Piccadilly, Glossop and Hadfield. Services are operated by Northern Trains.^[3]

The main bus route in the area is the 346, which links Hyde with Ashton-Under-Lyne; it is operated by Stagecoach Manchester.^[4]

Newton is served by the following primary and secondary schools:

Michael Barber (1934 - 1991), chemist and mass spectrometrist, best known for his invention of fast atom bombardment ionisation; born at 166 Lodge Lane in Newton

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Newton, Greater Manchester.

^ News, Manchester Evening (7 May 2010). "Stalybridge and Hyde result". Manchester Evening News. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ Tameside
^ "Timetables and engineering information for travel with Northern". Northern Railway. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
^ "Newton Bus Services". Bus Times. 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024.