Newton
St Mary's Church, Newton
Newton Location within Greater Manchester
Population	12,000 (2001)
Metropolitan borough	Tameside
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HYDE
Postcode district	SK14
Dialling code	0161

Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North West

UK Parliament	Stalybridge and Hyde
List of places UK England Greater Manchester 53°27′36″N 2°05′24″W / 53.460°N 2.090°W / 53.460; -2.090

Newton is an area of Hyde, Greater Manchester, England; it occupies a narrow strip of land from the River Tame, near Newton Hall, to Matley, between Hyde and Dukinfield.

Newton can be divided into four separate parts:

The former site of Shaw Hall factory lies on Matley Lane.

Governance

Newton is part of the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency, whose Member of Parliament is currently Jonathan Reynolds^[1] of the Labour Co-operative party. Newton was previously in the North West England European Parliament constituency.

Newton is in Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council,^[2] which was formed in 1974 and whose council offices are in Ashton-Under-Lyne.

Transport

The area is served by two railway stations: Newton for Hyde and Flowery Field; both are stops on the Glossop Line between Manchester Piccadilly, Glossop and Hadfield. Services are operated by Northern Trains.^[3]

The main bus route in the area is the 346, which links Hyde with Ashton-Under-Lyne; it is operated by Stagecoach Manchester.^[4]

Newton is served by the following primary and secondary schools:

Michael Barber (1934 - 1991), chemist and mass spectrometrist, best known for his invention of fast atom bombardment ionisation; born at 166 Lodge Lane in Newton