Ashton-under-Lyne is one of Lancashire's historic and picturesque cotton towns, lying in the lee of the Pennines, 7 miles east of Manchester city centre in the borough of Tameside.

This bustling market town, officially now the 4th busiest town centre in Greater Manchester, has a catchment population of 353,000 within a 10 minute drive, following the opening in 2000 of the eastern section of the M60, Greater Manchester's orbital ring road. Now only 20 minutes from Manchester Airport, less than an hour to both Leeds and Liverpool, with the Metrolink service to Manchester imminent and an influx of recent investment and opportunities, Ashton's star is definitely in the ascendant.