Longdendale Urban District

For the non-statutory territory today, see Longdendale.

Longdendale Urban District
Longdendale UD within Cheshire in 1970
History
• Created	1936
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Metropolitan Borough of Tameside
Status	Urban district
Government	Longdendale Urban District Council
•  HQ	Hollingworth

Longdendale Urban District (also known as Longendale Urban District) was, from 1936 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Cheshire, England. It was named after the valley of Longdendale, and covered western parts of the valley. The council was based in Hollingworth and the district also included Mottram in Longdendale, Broadbottom and surrounding areas.

History

The district was created in 1936 covering the combined area of the two former urban districts of Mottram-in-Longdendale and Hollingworth, plus smaller areas transferred from the neighbouring parishes of Hattersley and Matley.

The district covered an area close to Cheshire's north-eastern boundary with Derbyshire and was bound (from north to west) by the Municipal Borough of Mossley, Municipal Borough of Stalybridge, Municipal Borough of Dukinfield and Municipal Borough of Hyde. Tintwistle Rural District, from which Longdendale exchanged territory in 1936, lay to the east.

The council was based at Albion Lodge (now called Albion House) on the street called Mottram Moor in Hollingworth, which had been the old Hollingworth Urban District Council's headquarters since 1913. ^{[1] [2]}

Londendale Urban District is in the bottom right of this map of modern-day Greater Manchester superimposed over former district boundaries

In 1974, Longdendale Urban District was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 and its former area was transferred to Greater Manchester to form part of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside.

See also

• Longdendale Bypass

References

A vision of Longdendale UD, visionofbritain.org.uk. URL accessed 1 March 2008.

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1. "Hollingworth's New Schemes". Glossop-dale Chronicle. Glossop. 17 February 2025. p. 5. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
2. "Plan SK 0095-0195". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. 1971. Retrieved 17 February 2025.