Stockport
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Edgeley Park
Stadium
Photo: Ceaton89, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edgeley Park is a football stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for Stockport RFC, a rugby league club, in 1891, by 1903 the rugby club was defunct and Stockport County Football Club moved in.
Stockport railway station
Railway station
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
Stockport railway station serves the market and industrial town of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. It is located 6 miles south-east of Manchester Piccadilly, on a spur of the West Coast Main Line to London Euston.
Hat Works
Museum
Photo: Zzztriple2000, Public domain.
The Hat Works is a museum in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, which opened in 2000. Before that, smaller displays of hatting equipment were exhibited in Stockport Museum and in the former Battersby hat factory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edgeley and Cheadle Heath.
Edgeley
Suburb
Edgeley is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Edgeley is characterised largely by Victorian terraced housing around Alexandra Park. The population in 2021 was 14,182. Edgeley Park is home to Stockport County F.C.
Cheadle Heath
Suburb
Cheadle Heath is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 2 miles west of the town centre and 8 miles southeast of Manchester. Cheadle Heath railway station, on the site now occupied by Morrisons supermarket, closed in 1967.
Reddish
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Reddish is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 4.6 miles south-east of Manchester city centre. At the 2011 census, the population was 28,052.
Stockport
- Categories: unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: Stockport, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4079° or 53° 24′ 28″ northLongitude
-2.1602° or 2° 9′ 37″ westPopulation
136,000Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)IATA airport code
XVAUnited Nations Location Code
GB STKOpen location code
9C5VCR5Q+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 33079336OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2636882Wikidata 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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