HYDE, market town, municipal borough, Stalybridge and Hyde parliamentary division, Cheshire, England, 71 m. E. of Manchester, by the L.N.E. railway. Pop. (1931), 32,066. It is connected with Manchester by an electric tramway system. Standing on the river Tame, it has cotton and weaving factories, spinning mills, print-works, iron foundries and machine works; it also manufactures hats and margarine. There are extensive coal mines in the vicinity. Hyde is wholly of modern growth, though it contains a few ancient houses, such as Newton Hall. The old family of Hyde held possession of the manor as early as the reign of John. The borough was incorporated in 1881.