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The borough was created in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from the former area of the County Borough of Stockport and from the administrative county of Cheshire the urban districts of Bredbury and Romiley, Cheadle and Gatley, Hazel Grove and Bramhall and Marple.
The borough of Stockport therefore straddled Cheshire and Lancashire from 1836 onwards. [ 46 ] Under the terms of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 , Stockport Poor Law Union was established on 3 February 1837 and was responsible for an area covering 16 parishes or townships (mostly from the old parish of Stockport) with a total population of 68,906.
Under the Stockport Borough Extension Act 1901 the borough was enlarged, absorbing the urban district of Reddish in Lancashire as well a number of parts of Cheshire parishes. The Stockport (Extension) Order 1913 saw a further enlargement with the absorption of Heaton Norris Urban District from Lancashire. [3] In 1956 the borough was placed ...
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 ...
This is a list of people from Stockport, in North West England. The demonym of Stockport is Stopfordian , however, this list may include people from Bredbury , Cheadle , Cheadle Hulme , Marple , Reddish and Romiley , all from the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport .
The original borough was entirely south of the River Mersey in Cheshire. [3] [4] The borough was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, at which point the boundaries were enlarged, with some of the gained area being on the north side of the Mersey in Lancashire; after 1836 the borough therefore ...
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground on the River Mersey at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame, 6.1 miles (9.8 km) southeast of the city of Manchester. Stockport is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, and has a population of 136,082, the wider borough having ...
Stockport was created as a two-member parliamentary borough by the Reform Act 1832.Under the Representation of the People Act 1918, the constituency was retained as one of only 12 two-member non-university seats, with the boundaries being brought into line with those of the county borough, which had expanded through absorbing the urban districts of Reddish and Heaton Norris (formerly part of ...