 Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Gee Cross was the larger town in the immediate area; however, the current parent town of Hyde, which grew in the Industrial Revolution, is now the major town and has now merged into the north of Gee Cross.The village contains modern day Hyde's first place of Christian worship, Hyde Chapel, built in 1708.This would serve as the main church in the area for over a century until St George's Church was built in the centre of Hyde in 1832.