Canal-side Tameside town on the Metrolink line with a marina and a compact centre. Robertson's jam works and cotton mills employed the town; the Metrolink arrived in 2013.
The Concord Suite, Droylsden Academy and canal-side regeneration. The best-known landmark is Droylsden Marina on the Ashton Canal, and the M43 postcodes reach Audenshaw, Openshaw, Clayton, Ashton-under-Lyne within a short drive.
For a house move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: byelaw terraces off Manchester Road, 1930s semis with bay windows, and new-build canal-side apartments along the Ashton Canal marina. Canal-side damp and Ashton New Road traffic film settle on frontages and marina-facing glass.