Tonge is a residential and industrial area of Middleton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

It lies on the east side of Middleton between the town centre and its border with Chadderton in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.

Tonge was formerly a township in its own right, until the area was incorporated into the Municipal Borough of Middleton as part of local government reforms in the late 19th century.

This township occupied, as its name implies, a tongue of land between the River Irk on the north and its affluent, the Wince Brook, on the south.

There have been a number of changes to the existing building since the beginning of the 20th century – the nave was built in 1912, the tower was added in 1926 and the Holy Innocents’ Chapel and Memorial area were completed in 1981.

[6] Tonge AFC were an Association football club formed in 1887 and has it origins at St Michael's School.

They originally played on a field behind the Old Cock Inn, Oldham Road but by 1890 the club had moved to a ground near Tonge Hall.