Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Stockport. You may be able to find further references to Stockport in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
STOCKPORT	a town, a township, a parish, two sub-districts, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Stockport.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Bramhall	township and railway station	Bartholomew
BRAMHALL, or Bramall	a township	Imperial
Bredbury	township with railway station	Bartholomew
BREDBURY	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Brinnington	township	Bartholomew
BRINNINGTON	a township	Imperial
Bullock Smithy	village	Bartholomew
BULLOCK-SMITHY	a village	Imperial
Castle Hall	ecclesiastical district and village	Bartholomew
CASTLE-HALL	a chapelry	Imperial
Chadkirk	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
Compstall	village	Bartholomew
COMPSTALL	a village	Imperial
DISLEY, or Disley-Stanley	a township-chapelry	Imperial
Disley-Slanley	township	Bartholomew
Dukinfield	township and railway station	Bartholomew
ETCHELLS, or Stockport-Etchells	a township	Imperial
Gee Cross	ecclesiastical district and hamlet	Bartholomew
GEE-CROSS	a village	Imperial
HARDEN HALL	a fine old seat	Imperial
Hatherlow	place	Bartholomew
Hazel Grove	village with railway station	Bartholomew
High Lane	ecclesiastical district and village with railway station	Bartholomew
HYDE	a town, a township, two chapelries and a subdistrict	Imperial
Marple	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
Norbury	township and village	Bartholomew
NORBURY	a village, a township, and a chapelry	Imperial
Offerton	township and village	Bartholomew
OFFERTON	a township, with a village	Imperial
Portwood	ecclesiastical district and railway station	Bartholomew
PORTWOOD	a chapelry	Imperial
Romiley (or Chadkirk)	township and village with railway station	Bartholomew
ROMILEY, or Chadkirk	a village and a township-chapelry	Imperial
Stockport Etchells	township	Bartholomew
Torkington	township	Bartholomew
TORKINGTON	a township	Imperial
Werneth	township with railway station	Bartholomew
WERNETH	a township-chapelry	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Stockport within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
George Borrow	Wrexham and Llangollen	1
William Camden	Shropshire and Cheshire	1
Charles Wesley	Jan. 1 - Apr. 30, 1744: London to Newcastle	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Portwood	0	2
Heaton Norris	0	2
Brinnington	0	2
Heaton Chapel	0	2
Heaton Moor	0	1
Reddish	0	3
Offerton	0	2
Norbury	0	2
Burnage	0	2
Heaton Mersey	0	2
Bredbury	0	2
Levenshulme	0	2
Hazel Grove	0	4
Torkington	0	2
Cheadle Hulme	0	2
Cheadle	0	5
Didsbury	0	2
Denton	0	2
Romiley	0	2
Fallowfield	0	2