Stockport: facts

At a glance

• Country: United Kingdom
• Region: England
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 139,052
• Coordinates: 53.4098° N, 2.1576° W
• Time zone: Europe/London (UTC+00:00 standard, UTC+01:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Pound (GBP)
• Distance to the capital, London: 252 km (157 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Manchester Airport (MAN): 11 km (7 mi), straight line
• Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL): 47 km (29 mi), straight line
• Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA): 60 km (38 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Bredbury: 2.8 km (1.8 mi)
• Hazel Grove: 4.0 km (2.5 mi)
• Cheadle Hulme: 4.3 km (2.7 mi)
• Bramhall: 5.8 km (3.6 mi)
• Hyde: 6.9 km (4.3 mi)

Things to see

• Hat Works (museum)
• Staircase House (attraction)
• Stockport Air Raid Shelters (museum)
• Brinksway Caves (ruins)
• Saint Mary's Church (church)
• Strawberry Studios Stockport (building)