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Ashton-under-Lyne: Portland Basin Museum Pleasure boats moored at the Portland Basin Museum on the Ashton Canal, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester, Eng.

Tameside

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Tameside, metropolitan borough in the eastern part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, northwestern England. The parts of Tameside west of the River Tame, such as Ashton-under-Lyne (the metropolitan borough’s administrative centre), Audenshaw, and Denton, are in the historic county of Lancashire, while those to the east, including Stalybridge, Dukinfield, and Hyde, belong to the historic county of Cheshire. The borough includes a section of the Pennines uplands, and immediately to its east is...

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