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The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is south-east of central Manchester and south of Tameside.As well as the towns of Stockport, Bredbury and Marple, it includes the outlying villages and suburbs of Hazel Grove, Bramhall, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Gatley, Reddish, Woodley and Romiley.
The club was formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, changing its name to Stockport County in 1890 to reflect the town's status as a county borough. It joined the English Football League in 1900. Its most successful season was the 1996–97 season , when it reached the Football League Cup semi-finals and won promotion to Division One .
A map of Greater Manchester, with its 14 parished areas highlighted in red. A civil parish is a country subdivision, forming the lowest unit of local government in England. There are 14 civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester, most of the county being unparished; Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Stockport are completely ...
The SK postcode area, also known as the Stockport postcode area, [2] is a group of nineteen postcode districts in England, within eleven post towns.These cover south-east Greater Manchester (including Stockport, Cheadle, Hyde, Stalybridge and Dukinfield), parts of east Cheshire (including Macclesfield, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge), north-west Derbyshire (including Buxton, High Peak and Glossop ...
Woodsmoor is a suburb of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England . The area is served by Woodsmoor railway station, opened by British Rail in 1990. [1]The area is populated by many large and old trees, existing since the time that it was the estate of the house which eventually became Stockport Grammar School.
Marple is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is on the River Goyt, 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) north of Macclesfield and 4 miles (6 km) south-east of Stockport. At the 2021 census, the built up area had a population of 12,970.
Woodley is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is situated mostly on the east side of the Peak Forest Canal, next to Bredbury, Romiley and the boundary with Tameside, at Gee Cross. Historically part of Cheshire, the name means "a clearing in the wood" because the area contains much woodland.
This was said to the arms of the Stopford or Stockport family, Barons of Stockport. [18] On either side of the shield was a lion and the figure of Britannia. Above the shield was a mural crown and a banner inscribed "Municipal Reform January 1836" [1] On 5 December 1932, the county borough obtained a grant of arms and crest from the College of ...