page_title: Gee Cross
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gee Cross / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Gee Cross Well Dressing 2003 The Adamson Band leading the procession for the 2003 Gee Cross Well Dressing Ceremony marching down Joel Lane.
context_page_description: Gee Cross is a village and suburb of Hyde within Tameside Metropolitan Borough, in Greater Manchester, England.
context_section_description: Gee Cross village centre dates back to the times of the Domesday Book. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Gee Cross was the larger village in the immediate area; however, the current parent town of Hyde, which grew in the Industrial Revolution, is now the major town and has now merged into the north of Gee Cross.
  The village contains modern day Hyde's first place of Christian worship, Hyde Chapel, built in 1708. This would serve as the main church in the area for over a century until St George's Church was built in the centre of Hyde in 1832.
  Historically the village (latterly as part of the borough of Hyde) was a part of Cheshire until the creation of Greater Manchester in 1974. The village has neither statutory boundaries nor civil parish status. Tradition would dictate that the northern boundary is at the corner of Lilly Street and Stockport Road, at a location known as the "big tree".  The big tree commemorates those that lost their lives in the Falklands War of 1982.
  Gee Cross is home to a recently instituted well dressing festival, which is an ancient custom in the Pennines. There is also another recent addition, an annual village fete, which is a major fund raising event for local charities held on the site of a former reservoir, which is now classified as the village green.
caption: Gee Cross well dressing festival, 2003
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