What is Hyde, Greater Manchester?
'''Hyde''' is a town in [[Tameside]], [[Greater Manchester]]. 34,003 people lived there in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Custom report - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E35000037|access-date=2023-03-31|website=www.nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref> It used to be in [[Cheshire]]. It grew because of the [[Cotton mill|cotton mills]] during the [[Industrial Revolution]]. There were 40 working mills, but only one is left in 2023. There was a coal mine, known as Hyde Colliery, in the town and in January 1889 an explosion there killed 23 miners. The [[Peak Forest Canal]] goes through Hyde from [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] to Woodley, Romiley and Marple.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Peak Forest Canal - information and photographs|url=http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/peak/|access-date=2023-03-31|website=www.penninewaterways.co.uk}}</ref> There are six railway stations in the town. The [[Moors murders|Moors murderers]] Ian Brady and Myra Hindley lived on the Hattersley estate in Hyde. [[Harold Shipman]] was a doctor in the town and most of the people he killed lived there. <ref>{{Cite news|date=2004-01-13|title=Harold Shipman: The killer doctor|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3391897.stm|access-date=2023-03-31}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Towns in Greater Manchester]] [[Category:Tameside]]