![]() ![]() Early Bronze Age (2000–1200 BC) remains include stone hammers, flint knives, palstaves (bronze axe heads), and funerary urns all finds were chance discoveries, not the results of systematic searches of a known site. ![]() The earliest evidence of human occupation in the wider area are microliths from the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic period (the Middle Stone Age, about 8000–3500 BC) and weapons and stone tools from the Neolithic period (the New Stone Age, 3500–2000 BC). Stockport has never been a sea or river port as the Mersey is not navigable here in the centre of Stockport the river has been culverted and the main shopping street, Merseyway, built above it. Stopfordian is used as the general term, or demonym used for people from Stockport, much as someone from London would be a Londoner. Stopford retains a use in the adjectival form, Stopfordian, for Stockport-related items, and pupils of Stockport Grammar School style themselves Stopfordians. There is evidence that a ford across the Mersey existed at the foot of Bridge Street Brow. Other derivations are based on early variants such as Stopford and Stockford. The castle probably refers to Stockport Castle, a 12th-century motte-and-bailey first mentioned in 1173. Older derivations include stock, a stockaded place or castle, with port, a wood, hence a castle in a wood. The currently accepted etymology is Old English port, a market place, with stoc, a hamlet (but more accurately a minor settlement within an estate) hence, a market place at a hamlet. Stockport was recorded as "Stokeport" in 1170. The River Tame (left) and the River Goyt (right) meeting to form the Mersey Toponymy It is home to the mighty Stockport County football team, league 2 playoff finalists Built in 1840, its 27 brick arches carry the mainline railways passing through the town over the River Mersey. 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.ĭominating the western approaches to the town is Stockport Viaduct. Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. In the 18th century, it had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the British Isles. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, known for the cultivation of hemp and manufacture of rope. ![]() Most of the town is within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, with the area north of the Mersey in the historic county of Lancashire. It is the main settlement of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Stockport is an industrial town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield. ![]()
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