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Stockport est une ville anglaise située au sud de Manchester, dans le Grand Manchester, sur la Mersey. Elle comptait 136 082 habitants en 2001. La ville héberge le club football de Stockport County. Le batteur du groupe Muse, Dominic Howard, y est né.
Stockport is a market and industrial town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Manchester, 9 miles (14 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here.
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The borough was created in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from the former area of the County Borough of Stockport and from the administrative county of Cheshire the urban districts of Bredbury and Romiley, Cheadle and Gatley, Hazel Grove and Bramhall and Marple. Stockport became a county borough in 1889 and was enlarged by gaining terri...
Parliamentary constituencies
There are four parliamentary constituencies in the Stockport Metropolitan Borough: Stockport, Cheadle, Hazel Grove, and Denton and Reddish. Stockport has been represented by Navendu Mishra (Labour) since 2019. Mary Robinson (Conservative) has been MP for Cheadle since 2015. William Wragg (Conservative) has been MP for Hazel Grove since 2015. The constituency of Denton and Reddish bridges Stockport and Tameside; the current member is Andrew Gwynne (Labour).
Unparished Areas
Showing former status (prior to 1974), the entire district is unparished (note that Offerton Park, called "Offerton Estate" until 2006, existed from 2002 to 2011): 1. Bredbury and Romiley(Urban District) 2. Cheadle and Gatley(Urban District) 3. Hazel Grove and Bramhall(Urban District) 4. Marple(Urban District) 5. Stockport(County Borough)
Council
There are 21 electoral wards in Stockport, each with 3 councillors, giving a total of 63 councillors. From 2002 until 2014, the Liberal Democrats had a controlling majority on the council. Following the 2014 Local Elections, no party had overall control. The Liberal Democrats remained the largest party, despite losing a seat, but decided not to form a minority administration and strongly refused any possibility of a coalition with the Conservatives. Following the 2016 Local Elections, no part...
At the 2001 UK census, the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport had a total population of 284,528.Of the 120,456 households in Stockport: 38.0% were married couples living together, 30.3% were one-person households, 8.3% were co-habitingcouples and 9.4% were lone parents. The population density is 2,257/km2 (5,850/sq mi) and, for every 100 females, th...
The Co-operative Bank opened a telephone banking centre in the Stockport pyramid in 1994. In 1999, the Stockport pyramid became the administrative home of smile.co.uk, an internet bank owned by the Co-op. The Co-op moved out of the pyramid building in 2019 and it is now available to let. Experian ranked Stockport fifth in North West England for sho...
Stockport has 386 listed buildings. There are six Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the borough. Two date to the Bronze Age, a cairn in Ludworth and the Brown Low bowl barrow. Two related to medieval halls, Peel Hall in Heaton Moor and Torkington Moat. The final two were both built at the start of the 19th century, Oldknows Limekilns and the Marple Aq...
Overall, Stockport was ranked 21st out of all the Local Education Authorities in SATs performance in 2006 and was 2nd in Greater Manchester. Authorised and unauthorised absences from Stockport secondary schools in 2006-07 were 6.7% and 1.3% respectively, almost the same as the national average (6.8% and 1.3%).In 2007, the Stockport LEA was ranked 3...
The Borough of Stockport has formal twinning arrangements with two European places: Béziers was originally twinned with the County Borough of Stockportand became twinned with the Metropolitan Borough on its creation in 1974. 1. Béziers, France, 1972 2. Heilbronn, Germany, 1982 1. Greater Manchester portal
Bibliography
1. Clark, David Michael (1973). Greater Manchester Votes: A Guide to the New Metropolitan Authorities. Redrose. ISBN 978-0950293202.
May 5, 2024 · Stockport, urban area (from 2011 built-up area) and metropolitan borough in the southeastern part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, northwestern England. Most of the borough, including the historic town of Stockport, lies in the historic county of Cheshire, but it includes an area.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, North West England. Seven miles (10 km) south east of the city of Manchester, it is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, and has a population of 136,083 (2001 Census), with the borough as a whole having 281,000.
Le Stockport County Football Club est un club de football professionnel anglais basé à Stockport, dans le Grand Manchester. Le club évolue depuis la saison 2022-2023 en EFL League Two (quatrième division anglaise). Formé en 1883 sous le nom de Heaton Norris Rovers, il est rebaptisé Stockport County en 1890, d'après le borough de Stockport.
Stockport is a town in the south east of Greater Manchester, historically in Cheshire, at the point where the rivers Tame and Goyt combine to form the Mersey.
