Area: 48 square miles
Population: 292,000
Sea Level: the point of sea level is in Mersey Square

Snippets:

• The town's football club, Stockport County are nicknamed 'the hatters'
• The local brewery Robinson's, produces Hatters' Mild
• Indiana Jones wore a Stockport-manufactured Christy's hat.

Historical info:

• Stockport was granted Municipal Borough status in 1835 and a town council was elected. In 1974 (the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport was created).
• Halliday Hill House in Offerton is the medieval family seat of the Dodge family. Their illustrious association with America began when two brothers emigrated to New England.

Stockport's twin towns: Stockport is twinned with Beziers in the South of France and Heillbronn in Germany. To find out more please click here

Stockport can also be found in . . .
USA: Ohio, Columbia County (New York), Iowa and Indiana.
Australia (100 miles from Adelaide)
Stockport Island in the Canadian Artic