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Why is stockport called Stockport? |
Travel Info It is inland and not on the coast, so therefore it surely is not a port? Is it anything to do with the Manchester shipping canal? Travel Tips Stockport was originally a Saxon village. Although nobody knows for sure, its name could have come from Stoc, a stockaded place or castle and Port, a wood. So a castle in the wood ? Agricola recognised its strategical advantages and fortified Stockport to guard the passage of the Mersey in AD79. Strangely, though both Cheadle and Bramhall were referenced in the Domesday Book of 1086, Stockport itself received no mention ! It did have a market though, well before it was officially granted in 1260 AD. Hope this explains Tina Others cos there was already somewere called southport It used to be on the sea front until the land built up, same as the Wirral which is now a long way from the sea which was once closer... Because it would cost too much money to change all the signs to the Town's new name of Shithole there was originally a port on the river Mersey and in saxon times it was call stok. so it became stockport imagination and it seems viable |
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