Stockport

Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey. The town is the biggest settlement in the metropolitan precinct of a similar name. Generally, the vast majority of the town was in Cheshire, yet the region toward the north of the Mersey was in Lancashire. Stockport in the 16th century was a residential area totally on the south bank of the Mersey, and known for the development of hemp and make of rope.

In the 18th century the town had one of the primary motorized silk industrial facilities in the British Isles. Be that as it may, Stockport's prevalent enterprises of the 19th century were the cotton and partnered ventures. Stockport was likewise at the focal point of the nation's hatting industry, which by 1884 was sending out in excess of six million caps every year; the last cap works in Stockport shut in 1997. Overwhelming the western ways to deal with the town is the Stockport Viaduct. Worked in 1840, the viaduct's 27 block curves convey the mainline railroads from Manchester to Birmingham and London over the River Mersey. This structure included as the foundation in numerous works of art by L. S. Lowry.