Where to Stay in Stockport, England

What is Stockport known for?

Bramall Hall is the building most visitors travel for, while Staircase House and the Stockport Air Raid Shelters cover the two ends of the town's story, domestic and wartime, inside the old centre. Rivers meet here as well. St Mary's Church, Stockport heads a long list of parishes, with St George's Church, Heaviley and St Elisabeth's Church among the later ones.

What are the main landmarks in Stockport?

Bramall Hall is the set piece. Staircase House, the Hat Works and the Stockport Air Raid Shelters make the centre worth a full day, and the site of Stockport Castle belongs to the same short circuit. Halls survive out in the borough.

Goyt Hall, Harrytown Hall, Moseley Old Hall, Cheadle, the Old Rectory and Chadkirk Chapel are scattered across it, while St Mary's Church, Stockport, St Peter's Church, Stockport, St Thomas' Church, Stockport, St George's Church, Heaviley and Christ Church, Heaton Norris head the town's churches.

What is the history of Stockport?

Stockport Castle marks the beginning. Its ground above the meeting of the Goyt and the Tame fixed where the town would sit, and St Mary's Church, Stockport has served the parish from that same early layer, back when the whole place counted as Cheshire rather than Greater Manchester. Halls came with the land.

Goyt Hall, Harrytown Hall, Moseley Old Hall, Cheadle and Bramall Hall belong to the older estate country the borough later grew over, with Chadkirk Chapel and the Old Rectory surviving from the same rural order. Hatting made the modern town. The Hat Works keeps that industry's record, Staircase House preserves what merchant housing in the centre looked like, and Green Lane runs among the named streets of the built-up town.

Churches multiplied with the workforce. St Peter's Church, Stockport, St Thomas' Church, Stockport, Christ Church, Heaton Norris, St George's Church, Heaviley, St Matthew's Church, the Church of St Paul, the Church of St Mark and the Church of St John the Baptist filled out a parish map that had begun with one. Nonconformists and Catholics built their own: the Heaton Moor United Reform Church, Hatherlow United Reformed Church, St Joseph's Church, Stockport and Our Lady and the Apostles Church, Stockport.

War then went underground. The Stockport Air Raid Shelters were driven beneath the centre, and they remain the most unusual thing the town kept.

Where is Stockport?

Two rivers become one here. The Goyt and the Tame merge in Stockport to make the Mersey, which gives the town a cut valley through its middle and the sloping ground that Stockport Castle once used. Manchester is 6 miles off to the north-west.

Ashton-under-Lyne lies about 7 miles to the north-east, Macclesfield some 12 miles south, and the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport reaches out past Cheadle, Heaton Moor and the Goyt-side ground at Chadkirk.

What is the climate of Stockport?

Wet weather is the norm in Stockport. Stockport lies low at the junction of the Goyt and the Tame, and moist air running along both valleys keeps the town under cloud more often than not, in the weather Greater Manchester is known for. Frost seldom takes hold for long.

Bramall Hall, the Hat Works, Staircase House and the Stockport Air Raid Shelters absorb the days when the rain refuses to stop.

How do you get to Stockport?

Manchester supplies most arrivals. The city sits 6 miles to the north-west, which puts Stockport within an easy run of everything that arrives there, and Ashton-under-Lyne is about 7 miles away to the north-east. Macclesfield is 12 miles south.

Inside the borough, Cheadle, Heaton Moor and the Goyt-side lanes towards Chadkirk Chapel and Harrytown Hall are short journeys from the centre.