![]() ![]() Built in 1840, the viaduct's 27 brick arches carry the mainline railways from Manchester to Birmingham and London over the River Mersey. ![]() The town's hatting heritage is preserved at ' Hat Works – the Museum of Hatting'.ĭominating the western approaches to the town is the Stockport Viaduct. Stockport 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. However, Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries. In the 18th century the town had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the British Isles. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the southbank of the Mersey, and known for the cultivation of hemp and rope manufacture. Historically, the town is mostly within Cheshire, but is historically also a part of Lancashire, to the north of the Mersey. As of the 2001 Census the town had a population of 136,082 and the wider borough 281,000. Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name. ![]() It lies on elevated ground 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Manchester city centre, at the point where the rivers Goyt and Tame join and create the River Mersey. Stockport ( / ˈ s t ɒ k p ɔː t /) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. Stockport shown within Greater Manchester ![]()
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