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Stockport was a rural district in the administrative county of Cheshire from 1894 to The district was the successor to the Stockport Rural Sanitary District formed in 1875. The rural district was originally composed of eight civil parishes (with population in 1891):
[1] [2] Although surrounded by the ancient parish of Stockport, Bosden was a detached part of the parish of Cheadle from at least the 13th century. Cheadle parish formed part of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire , and was subdivided into three townships ; Bosden formed part of the Handforth township, which was sometimes also known as ...
Old Manor Farm is a 15th-century hall in Marple, Stockport, historically in Cheshire, now within Greater Manchester, England (grid reference).Built in the 15th century, it has had additions made in the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries.
John Bradshaw, the second son of Henry Bradshaw and Catherine Winnington, was born in 1602 probably at Wybersley (Wyberslegh) Hall in the village of High Lane near Stockport, Cheshire, or possibly at the nearby Peace Farm, Marple (his father farmed at both) and baptised on 10 December in Stockport Church.
Stockport County Borough was a county-level local authority between 1889 and 1974. The town of Stockport had been an ancient borough governed by a charter dating from circa 1220 granted by Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester. [1] It was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.
Norbury was historically a township in the ancient parish of Stockport, which formed part of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire. [1] From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the poor laws, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Stockport, the civil ...