Places to go

Three of the most visited places of interest in Stockport are very different but each is unique. The town responsible for giving us hats to be proud to wear! A museum has been dedicated to the people who worked in the hatting industry which started as a cottage industry before becoming a mass producer of hats at the beginning of the 19th century.



Bramall Hall a Tudor timber house is owned by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council since 1974. Visitors including school children are able to imagine life in Tudor times and it gives them an insight into that particular part of life at that time. Bramall is in fact mentioned in the Domesday Book spelt differently Bramale.

The Victorian railway viaduct a brick structure towering 111 feet above the ground is a major feet of engineering and can be seen in the town.

The restored Stockport Market Hall has served as a place of public execution, where public proclamations were made and a place where people traded their goods. It was also once a cattle market and made history for the town when a first balloon ascent was made in 1827