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Stockport County F.C. is an association football club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, they were renamed Stockport County in 1890 after the County Borough of Stockport and nicknamed "The Hatters" after the town's former hat-making industry.
Stockport County Supporters' Co-operative is the other active supporters' group. [199] [200] It runs the Stockport County Appearance Number Scheme (SCAN), where every player who has played a first-team game is recognised with a framed certificate and a number which shows their position on the list of players who made their debut for the club.
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 ...
Stockport County Football Club, a professional association football club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, was founded in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, they were renamed Stockport County in 1890 after the County Borough of Stockport.
Stockport Stopfordians (from an old name for Stockport), Stockies, Stockpots, Hatters Stockton on Tees Smoggies Stoke-on-Trent Potters, Clay Heads, Stokies, Jug Heads, Pot Heads, Monkey-Dusters (pejorative) Stowmarket Stowmartians Stranraer Cleyholers Stratford-upon-Avon Fads (acronym, "Fat American Dodgers"; the town is over-touristed) Strood
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Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. It was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry, which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year; the last hat works in Stockport closed in 1997. The town's football club, Stockport County, is nicknamed The Hatters.