Dukinfield
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Dukinfield is a town in Tameside on the east of Manchester, England.
In the Middle Ages, Dukinfield was listed in the parish of Stockport under the administration of Macclesfield.
After the Norman Conquest it became part of two Norman estates and in the twelfth century the presiding family took the name De Dokenfield.
Industrialisation - particularly the cotton trade - helped shape the town, but its rapid development destroyed its former pasture and meadow land. Most of the cotton mills have now been demolished or converted to other uses.
There are three major historical characters in Dukinfield's history - John Astley, Samuel Robinson and Daniel Adamson.
Astley, born in 1724 was a coal, iron and cotton industrialist and built Dukinfield Lodge.
Robinson was a Unitarian, industrialist and scholar who founded the village library in 1833 and was dubbed the "foremost promoter of education in the district" before his death in 1884.
Adamson was a mechanical engineer who also became the first chairman of the world-renowned Manchester Ship Canal Company. He died on 13 January 1890.
In the world of sport, Tony Brooks was one of the top Formula One drivers of the 1950s.