Stockport is an industrial town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles south-east of Manchester, 9 miles south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. It is the main settlement of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.
Most of the town is within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire, with the area north of the Mersey in the historic county of Lancashire. Stockport in the 16th century was a small town entirely on the south bank of the Mersey, known for the cultivation of hemp and manufacture of rope. In the 18th century, it had one of the first mechanised silk factories in the British Isles.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockport
Coordinates 53°24'28.444" N -2°9'36.875" E
