It borders onto a county of Derbyshire to a east, and the metropolitan boroughs of Oldham, Stockport and Manchester. These are known as fallowing a River Tame, which runs across it.

Localities
Towns, villages & neck of the woods around Tameside include:

Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw Broadbottom Carrbrook, Copley Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield Flowery Field Gee Cross, Godley, Godley Green, Guide Bridge Hartshead Green, Hattersley, Haughton Green, Hazelhurst, Hollingworth, Hyde Landslow Green, Luzley Millbrook, Mossley, Mottram in Longdendale Park Bridge Roe Cross Stalybridge Warhill, Woolley Bridge

Places of interest
Astley Cheetham Art Gallery, Stalybridge Central Art Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne Museum of the Manchester Regiment, Ashton-under-Lyne Portland Basin Museum, Ashton-under-Lyne St Lawrence's Church (Timber framed - 1531), Denton Nico Ditch (Scheduled Ancient Monument, Anglo-Saxon defensive ditch), Denton Church of St Anne, Haughton (Grade I Listed Building), Denton Victoria Park (Green Flag Park Award), Denton Hyde Hall Farm, Tudor Mansion House (private residence, in the Tame Valley), Denton Reddish Vale Country Park, Tame Valley, part Denton, part Stockport Broad Mills, Broadbottom Staley Hall, Millbrook Buckton Castle, Carrbrook Werneth Low Hartshead Pike Park Bridge Heritage Centre Medlock Vale Country Park Haughton Dale Local Nature Reserve, Denton Knott Hill Reservoir Local Nature Reserve Great Wood Local Nature Reserve Audenshaw Reservoirs, Brushes Reservoir, Denton Reservoirs, Gorton Upper Reservoir, Higher Swineshaw Reservoir, Lower Swineshaw Reservoir, Walkerwood Reservoir Ashton Canal, Hollinwood Branch Canal, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Peak Forest Canal River Etherow, River Medlock, River Tame