Ashton-under-Lyne

[ash-tuhn-uhn-der-lahyn]

noun

1. a borough in Greater Manchester metropolitan county, in W England.

Ashton-under-Lyne

/ laɪn /

noun

1. a town in NW England, in Tameside unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 43 236 (2001)

Example Sentences

It will also be used for town centre regeneration projects in Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside and Prestwich in Bury, while support would be given for Mayoral Development Zones in Stockport, Bolton, Leigh and Middleton.

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Ashton-under-Lyne MP Rayner quit as deputy prime minister and housing secretary last month after it emerged she had failed to pay enough tax on her £800,000 flat in Hove, East Sussex.

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Ms Rayner has set out in detail, publicly, the details of her family's domestic arrangements and her decision to sell her 25% interest in the freehold of the family home in Ashton-under-Lyne and to purchase a property in Hove.

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Having sold her 25% share in the family home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Ms Rayner ceased to own any part of that property.

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Those ambitions started to be realised in 2015, when she was elected as the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester.

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