Midmost Ages, Dukinfield was utilized in the parish of Stockport under the administration of Macclesfield.

Fallowing a Norman Conquest it became section of ii Norman estates & in a 12th century a presiding personal took the title De Dokenfield.

Industrialisation - particularly a cotton trade - helped shape the town, however its rapid development destroyed its previous pasture & hayfield land. Virtually all of the cotton gauze mills use today been demolished or even converted to more utilizes.

There are trio major historical characters inside Dukinfield's history - John Astley, Samuel Robinson and Daniel Adamson.

Astley, innate around 1724 was a coal, iron & cloth industrialist & built Dukinfield Lodge.

Robinson was the Unitarian, industrialist and scholar world health organization founded a village library inside 1833 and was dubbed the "foremost promoter of education in the district" prior to his demise within 1884.

Adamson was the mechanical engineer who also became a 1st chair of the globe-an expert Manchester Ship Canal Company. He died in 13 January 1890.

In the globe of sport, Tony Brooks was one of the top Formula One drivers of the 1950s.

Dukinfield Cricket Club come members of the Lancashire County League. Their sales person for many seasons as much as & including 2005 is Paul Turner.