Stockport

Stockport is a town in the south east of , historically in Cheshire, at the point where the rivers Tame and Goyt combine to form the Mersey.
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  • Type: Town with 136,000 residents
  • Description: town in Greater Manchester, England
  • Also known as: “Stockport, Cheshire” and “Stockport, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Edgeley Park and Stockport railway station.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in , Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, Stockport County Football Club moved in by 1902, a year before the rugby club went defunct.

Railway station
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serves the market and industrial town of Stockport, in , England. It is located 6 miles south-east of , on a spur of the West Coast Main Line to London Euston.

Museum
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The is a in Stockport, , England, which opened in 2000. Before that, smaller displays of hatting equipment were exhibited in the and in the former Battersby hat factory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Reddish and Edgeley.

Suburb
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is an area of the , , England; it lies 4.6 miles south-east of . At the 2021 census, the population was 22,203.

Suburb
is a suburb of Stockport, in , England. It is characterised largely by Victorian terraced housing around Alexandra Park. The population in 2021 was 14,182.

Suburb
is a suburb of Stockport, , , 2 miles west of the town centre and 8 miles southeast of . railway station, on the site now occupied by Morrisons supermarket, closed in 1967.

Stockport

Latitude
53.4079° or 53° 24′ 28″ north
Longitude
-2.1602° or 2° 9′ 37″ west
Population
136,000
Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)
IATA airport code
XVA
United Nations Location Code
GB STK
Open location code
9C5VCR5Q+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33079336
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636882
Wiki­data ID
Q18655
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Stockport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Stockport”
  • Arabic: “ستوك بورت”
  • Arabic: “ستوكبورت”
  • Aragonese: “Stockport”
  • Armenian: “Սթոքպորտ”
  • Armenian: “Ստոկպորտ”
  • Asturian: “Stockport”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stokport”
  • Basque: “Stockport”
  • Belarusian: “Стокпарт”
  • Bengali: “স্টকপোর্ট”
  • Bulgarian: “Стокпорт”
  • Catalan: “Stockport”
  • Cebuano: “Stockport”
  • Chinese: “史托港”
  • Chinese: “斯托克波特”
  • Chinese: “斯托克港”
  • Czech: “Stockport”
  • Danish: “Stockport”
  • Dutch: “Stockport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستوكبورت”
  • Esperanto: “Stockport”
  • Esperanto: “Stokporto”
  • Finnish: “Stockport”
  • French: “Stockport”
  • Galician: “Stockport”
  • Georgian: “სტოკპორტი”
  • German: “Stockport”
  • Greek: “Στόκπορτ”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટોકપોર્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “סטוקפורט”
  • Hungarian: “Stockport”
  • Icelandic: “Stockport”
  • Indonesian: “Stockport”
  • Irish: “Stockport”
  • Italian: “Stockport”
  • Japanese: “ストックポート”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾಕ್ಪೋರ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “스톡포트”
  • Ladin: “Stockport (Cheshire)”
  • Ladin: “Stockport”
  • Latvian: “Stokporta”
  • Lithuanian: “Stokportas”
  • Low German: “Stockport”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stockport”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stockport”
  • Norwegian: “Stockport”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Stockport”
  • Persian: “استاک‌پورت”
  • Polish: “Stockport”
  • Portuguese: “Stockport”
  • Romanian: “Stockport”
  • Russian: “Стокпорт”
  • Scots: “Stockport”
  • Serbian: “Стокпорт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stockport, Manchester”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stockport”
  • Silesian: “Stockport”
  • Slovenian: “Stockport”
  • Spanish: “Stockport”
  • Swahili: “Stockport”
  • Swedish: “Stockport”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டோக்போர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Стокпорт”
  • Telugu: “స్టాక్పోర్ట్”
  • Thai: “สต็อกพอร์ต”
  • Turkish: “Stockport”
  • Ukrainian: “Стокпорт”
  • Urdu: “اسٹاک پورٹ”
  • Urdu: “اسٹاکپورٹ”
  • Urdu: “سٹاکپورٹ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Stockport”
  • Welsh: “Stockport”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯托克港”
  • Yue Chinese: “史托港”

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