Stockport, a cotton town of East Cheshire; occupies a site on the slopes of a narrow gorge overlooking the confluence of the Thame and Goyt (forming the Mersey), 37 m. E. of Liverpool; a handsome viaduct spans the river; has an old grammar-school, free library, technical school, &c.; during the present century has grown to be a busy centre of cotton manufactures, and has besides flourishing iron and brass foundries, machine-shops, breweries, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 70,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stockmar, Baron de * Stockton-on-Tees