Stockport

Stockport is a historic market town on the River Mersey, south east of Manchester, recognised at once by its great red-brick railway viaduct and its hilltop Market Place. Hat Works celebrates the town's hatting heritage, and Bramall Hall, a Tudor manor house set in open parkland, stands in Bramhall. The borough also covers Cheadle, Heaton Moor, Bredbury, Hazel Grove and Marple, where a flight of locks carries the canal up towards the hills. Read the latest good news from Stockport's shops, parks and people here.