Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, 6. 2 miles east of Manchester. Until the introduction of the cotton trade in 1769, Ashton was considered ‘bare, wet, and almost worthless’
