Stockport
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Manchester, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield.
Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England, 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Manchester, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of Macclesfield. The rivers Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. It is the main settlement of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. At the 2021 census, the built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 117,935, and the metropolitan borough had a population of 294,773.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Consider buying a combi-ticket for the council's four museums (all closed Monday) of Air Raid Shelters, Staircase House, Bramall Hall, and guided tour of Hat Works: adult £13, conc £10. The ticket is good for a single entry to each (but not to special exhibitions) without time limit.
- 01Hat Works
Wellington Mill, Wellington Rd South SK3 0EU,.
- 02Air Raid Shelters
During World War II, a network of tunnels and air-raid shelters was hewn out of the sandstone beneath town centre, big enough to shelter 6500.
- 03Staircase House
Entered via an unpromising modern building, but within is a well-restored house dating from the 15th century.
- 04Stockport Town Hall
Grandiose Edwardian wedding-cake built 1904–08 in white Portland stone - its architect Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas also built Belfast city hall in similar style.
From Wikivoyage: Stockport, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01The Plaza
Mersey Square SK1 1SP (by Mersey Square), bookings), boxoffice@stockportplaza.co.uk.
- 02Garrick Theatre
Exchange Street, Wellington Road South, SK3 0EJ, enquiries@stockportgarrick.co.uk.
- 03Stockport County FC
Edgeley Park, Hardcastle Road SK3 9DD, ticketoffice@stockportcounty.com.
- 04Bruntwood Park
This park has an eighteen-hole par 3 pitch and putt course (Apr - Oct £6.90) that makes the most of the landscape and sits alongside the existing mature trees.
From Wikivoyage: Stockport, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
Last Monsoon, 54 King Street West SK3 ODT (corner of Wood St),. Mon-Thu 4:30-11PM, Fri Sat 4:30PM-midnight, Sun 3-11PM. Reliable Indian restaurant, good portions and service. Rozafa, St Petersgate. Tue-Fri noon-2PM and 5-10:30PM, Sat 5-11PM, Sun 4-9:30PM. A good Greek Cypriot restaurant Stockport's main eating strip is along A6 Wellington Rd South.
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Getting to Stockport
- Airports
- Manchester (MAN), 11 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 47 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 60 km
- Liverpool → Stockport54 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Stockport59 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stockport84 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £9–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Stockport
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stockport. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe Manchester Ship Canal can only be used on the Mersey Ferry cruise from Salford to Eastham between April and October.
From Wikivoyage: Manchester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Stockport – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Stockport
Stockport is 10 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.