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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 ]
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 county council agreed, and the parish of Norbury was therefore abolished in September 1900, with the area becoming part of the new civil parish and urban district of Hazel Grove and Bramhall. [ 1 ] [ 10 ] At the 1891 census (the last before its abolition), the civil parish of Norbury had a population of 1,495. [ 11 ]
A further 16 acres (65,000 m 2) transferred in 1901, [3] and the remainder, Heaton Moor and Heaton Chapel, was added to Stockport county borough on 9 November 1913. [4] There was a plebiscite in the 1930s on whether the area wished to become part of Manchester again, but the vote was lost.
When elected county councils were established in 1889, Stockport was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from both Cheshire County Council and Lancashire County Council, whilst continuing to straddle the geographical counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. The borough ...
Edgeley Park, home of Stockport County F.C. Stockport County F.C. play in the EFL League One. 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.
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 ...
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