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Stockport Etchells
Stockport Etchells shown within Greater Manchester |
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| Population | approx. 9,000 |
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| Metropolitan borough | Stockport |
| Metropolitan county | Greater Manchester |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Greater Manchester |
| Fire | Greater Manchester |
| Ambulance | North West |
| EU Parliament | North West England |
| List of places: UK • England • Greater Manchester | |
Stockport Etchells is a former township in Greater Manchester, England. It lay in the historic county of Cheshire.
Stockport Etchells covered the rural area that includes modern-day Gatley and Heald Green. Hamlets in Stockport Etchells included Gatley Green, High Grove, Long Lane, Bolshaw and Outwood.[1]
Stockport Etchells existed as a township from the Middle Ages until 1894, when it was merged with the townships of Cheadle Bulkeley and Cheadle Moseley to form the Cheadle and Gatley Urban District, finally becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in 1974[1]
Stockport Etchells and Northen Etchells were collectively called Etchells and often administered together from the 16th to 18th centuries.