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Stockport Town Hall, Cheshire

Stockport Stockport is a large town in northern Cheshire, standing at the county's border with Lancashire on elevated ground on the River Mersey, where the rivers Goyt and Tame meet to become the infant River Mersey, 6 miles southeast of Manchester. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town known for the cultivation of hemp and rope manufacture and in the 18th century the town had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the United Kingdom. Stockport's predominant industries of the 19th century were the cotton and allied industries, and Stockport was also at the centre of the country's hatting industry which by 1884 was exporting more than six million hats a year. (Read more)