Editing Tameside (section)

==Twin towns==
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside has formal [[twin towns|twinning links]] with places in China, France and Germany.<ref>{{cite web|title=Town twinning|url=http://www.tameside.gov.uk/towntwinning|author=Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council|author-link=Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council|publisher=Tameside.gov.uk|date=27 September 2006}}; retrieved 4 September 2008</ref><ref>[https://www.tameside.gov.uk/towntwinning   Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Town Twinning] retrieved 20 January 2019</ref> (The arrangement with [[Mutare]], [[Zimbabwe]] has been suspended due to the political unrest in that country.<ref>[http://www.tameside.gov.uk/executivecabinet/03sept08/item10.pdf Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council : ''Report to Executive Cabinet'', 3 September 2008: Kiagware Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614160328/http://www.tameside.gov.uk/executivecabinet/03sept08/item10.pdf |date=2011-06-14 }}; retrieved 8 January 2010.</ref>)

Some localities were originally twinned with a place within the Metropolitan Borough prior to its creation in 1974.<ref name="France_Mag">{{cite news|url=http://www.francemag.com/Editorial.aspx?page=3073|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913173217/http://www.francemag.com/Editorial.aspx?page=3073|url-status=usurped|archive-date=13 September 2012|title=British Towns Twinned with French Towns|work=France Magazine|publisher=[[Archant Life]]|access-date=13 September 2008}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ruppichteroth.de/cms122/tourismus_kultur_vereine_sport/artikel/2006-12-13_longdendale_staedtepartnerschaft.shtml Gemeinde Ruppichteroth : ''Städtepartnerschaft mit Longdendale''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711092121/http://www.ruppichteroth.de/cms122/tourismus_kultur_vereine_sport/artikel/2006-12-13_longdendale_staedtepartnerschaft.shtml |date=2011-07-11 }}, 13 December 2006; retrieved 8 January 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.champagnole.fr/-Jumelage-.html Ville de Champagnole: ''Jumelage''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720211215/http://www.champagnole.fr/-Jumelage-.html |date=2011-07-20 }}; retrieved 8 January 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.villemomble.fr/spip.php?article136 Ville de Villemomble : ''Les Villes Européennes Jumelées avec Villmomble''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120014532/http://www.villemomble.fr/spip.php?article136 |date=2008-11-20 }}; retrieved 8 January 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.tameside.gov.uk/towntwinning/bengbu Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: ''Tameside's Link with Bengbu'']; retrieved 8 January 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.tamesideadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/382229_cut_ties_with_african_twin Tameside Advertiser: ''Cut Ties with African Town''], 28 August 2002; retrieved 8 January 2010.</ref> In the list below the brackets show where the place was twinned with before 1974 and since when.

* [[Armentières]], France, ([[Stalybridge|Municipal Borough of Stalybridge]], 1955)
* [[Bengbu]], China, (Tameside 1995)
* [[Colmar]], France, ([[Hyde, Greater Manchester|Municipal Borough of Hyde]], 1963)
* [[Champagnole]], France ([[Dukinfield|Municipal Borough of Dukinfield]], 1958)
* [[Chaumont, Haute-Marne|Chaumont]], France, ([[Ashton-under-Lyne|Municipal Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne]], 1956)
* [[Hem, Nord|Hem]], France, ([[Mossley|Municipal Borough of Mossley]], 1972)
* [[Kierspe]], Germany ([[Denton, Greater Manchester|Denton Town Twinning Association]], 1992 and 2012)
* [[Montigny-le-Bretonneux]], France, ([[Denton, Greater Manchester|Denton Town Twinning Association]], 1992 and 2012)
* [[Ruppichteroth]], Germany, ([[Longdendale|Longdendale Urban District]], 1974)
* [[Villemomble]], France, ([[Droylsden|Droylsden Town Twinning Association]], 1983)
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