Stockport Etchells

infobox UK place
map_type= Greater Manchester
country = England
official_name= Stockport Etchells
latitude= 53.3945
longitude= -2.2469
population= approx. 9,000
metropolitan_borough= Stockport
metropolitan_county= Greater Manchester
region= North West England

Stockport Etchells is a former township in Greater Manchester, England. It lay in the historic county of Cheshire.

Geography

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.cite book | title= Wythenshawe : A History of the Townships of Northenden, Northern Etchells and Baguley Volume 1 to 1926 | author= Shercliff, W H | year= 1974 | publisher= E J Morten (Publishers) | location= Didsbury | isbn= 0-85972-008-X ]

History

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

Stockport Etchells and Northen Etchells were collectively called Etchells and often administered together from the 16th to 18th centuries.

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