DUKINFIELD, municipal borough, parliamentary division of Stalybridge and Hyde, Cheshire, England, 6 m. east of Man chester. Pop. (1931), 19,309. It lies in a densely populated dis trict and is served by the L.M.S. and L.N.E. railways. The chief industries include coal-mining, cotton manufactures, calico-print ing, hat-making, iron-founding, engineering and the manufacture of firebricks and tiles. A portion remains of the old timbered Dukinfield Hall, in the chapel of which Samuel Eaton (d. 1665) taught the first Congregational church in the north of England. The chapel is still used. The borough was incorporated in Area, 1,407 acres.