River Goyt

The River Goyt is a tributary of the River Mersey in North West England.

Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Staircase House and St Mary’s Church, Stockport.

Staircase House

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Staircase House, also known as Stockport Museum, and formerly known as Stockport Story Museum, is a Grade II* listed medieval building dating from around 1460 in Stockport, historically in Cheshire and now within Greater Manchester, England.

St Mary’s Church, Stockport

Church

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St Mary's Church is the oldest parish church in Stockport, a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on Churchgate overlooking the market place.

Stockport Air Raid Shelters

Museum

The Stockport Air Raid Shelters are a system of almost 1 mile of underground air-raid shelters dug under Stockport, 6 miles south of Manchester, to protect local inhabitants during Second World War air raids.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stockport and Brinnington.

Stockport

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Stockport is a town in the south east of Greater Manchester, historically in Cheshire, at the point where the rivers Tame and Goyt combine to form the Mersey.

Brinnington

Suburb

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Brinnington is a north-eastern suburb of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on a bluff above a bend in the Tame Valley, between the M60 motorway and Reddish Vale Country Park.