The New Student's Reference Work/Stockport

Stock′port, a city in England, 37 miles east of Liverpool. It is built on the slopes of a deep ravine where two small rivers unite to form the Mersey, which is here crossed by a railroad viaduct, 111 feet high and 1,875 feet long. There are a 14th-century church, rebuilt in 1817, market-hall, free library, museum and St. Peter's square, with a statue of Richard Cobden. Stockport was the site first of a Roman station, then of a Norman castle, which was taken by Prince Rupert in 1644. It is an important seat of the cotton-industry, and has grown rapidly in spite of riots and strikes and the cotton-famine of 1861-4. There also are iron and brass foundries, engine and machine shops. Population 108,693.