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17-0174 Stockport Town Centre Led Walk Did you know Walking can help you reduce your stress levels, improve your mood and keep your bones healthy and strong. For example a 25 minute brisk walk every day can add up to seven years on your life, and walking for just 20 minutes can burn off around 100 calories. Transport for Greater Manchester is committed to promoting walking throughout Greater Manchester, encouraging people of all age groups and fitness levels to get out and walk. Whether you are exploring your local area, walking as part of your daily All in your stride... commute or taking in some fresh air during your lunch break we are here to help! This self-led walk is part of a wider series of walks in and around Greater Manchester. For more information on the other walks in this series, or on how we can help you, head to our walking pages. www.tfgm.com/walking Stockport Town Centre self-led walk Covered Market Stockport Dungeon Hat Works Stockport Air Raid Shelters 30-45 A step-by-step guide of discovery minutes 2kms Created for Transport for Greater Manchester by Pauline Lloyd, Manchester Tour Guide © Crown copyright and database rights 2017 OS 0100022610. Use of this data is subject to terms and conditions. You are granted a non-exclusive, royalty free, revocable licence solely to view the Licensed Data for non-commercial purposes for the period during which Transport for Greater Manchester makes it available; you are not permitted to copy, sub-license, distribute, sell or otherwise make available the Licensed Data to third parties in any form; and third party rights to enforce the terms of this licence shall be reserved to Ordnance Survey. Stockport Town Centre LED Walk NEW2.indd 1 13/09/2017 14:03 Continue down Great Underbank to Merseyway and across 10 11 Warren Street to Lancashire Bridge. Continue across Bridge Street, bear left into Prince’s Street and walk to Deanery Way. DALE OT Prince’s Street acquired its name in July 1908 when the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King George V TIVI 30-45 T I V All in your stride... D I O A T N T E and Queen Mary) visited Stockport to open the new Town Hall. The 1978 concrete mural along Deanery Way minutes I E D E L R I L A T T S L T S L E E L A tells the history of Stockport. E ET G N E E RE R ST T Stockport Town Centre area kms O CY 2 N N R O S PE T T R R E E ET G E RE E T T B S R T ’S I EA CE D R N G E G PRI S ET T TRE EN S Continue to Great Underbank, 10 WARR Turn right out of Deanery Way onto turn right and walk to the Prince’s Street LANCASHIRE 9 Merseyway and walk to Vernon Way. Turn BRIDGE 12 13 0 HA NatWest Bank. T 6 T left here and walk to Chestergate. M ON Castle Yard T S E T Staircase House, ST E S R T Underbank Hall, the 15th-century building occupied E’ Deanery Way Mural Stockport Story Museum & T C S IN R 11 N Stockport Air Raid Shelters museum across the road reveals WW2 tunnels TREE P Stockport Tourist Information Centre S O N B T by the NatWest Bank, was once the town house of LD DEANERY WAY R R E SHA 4 E I E K D V R W N G T CR S carved into the sandstone cliffs to protect thousands of local residents. A E OSS B S K BRIDGEFIE R TR F local landowners, the Ardernes. The black and white E AR O E MERSEYWAY EE P LD LGAT D T MIL They were the largest purpose-built civilian air raid shelters in the country. N 5 U T timbered style was very popular in 15th-century W 9 A MA OO E R RK DM G ET A Stockport Grammar School stood on Chestergate for over 200 years N PLA Cheshire, where oak was plentiful, and is often Underbank Hall ST 3 C E BR O from 1608. It was founded in 1487 by Sir Edmond Shaa, a Cheshire-born W called Cheshire magpie style. N Covered S DEA T NE Market RY St Mary’s Church goldsmith who became Sheriff and Mayor of London and played a role in the W M A E 6 Y A L H MARK O E crowning of King Richard III. U T A S E G T E S L 8 P IT R T TL B L E E E A E R C R T O E Turn right onto Little Underbank. T E W 7 S Bear right along Chestergate and return to Mersey Square. P UN S DE E’ T R C BA K S N P IN N K O BA R PR ER Stockport Dungeon T D Look out for the decorative clock as you pass W N E S U L T VERNON WALK 8 T LI A N E G Merseyway R 2 Winter’s Pub T TO G Winter’s pub. E N D’S RE KFOR T R PIC DE S O Shopping W SI N A BRO K O D AN RT B E N EG O Centre H T R IG L EA T H O R H H W G I G E H R S T R H E I E L N T L 12 OR G Site of former Stockport A T Keeping the Covered Market on your right, TH E Grammar School 13 PL Stockport Air ACE M walk around to the far side of it, turn left E R S Raid Shelters E Sockport Viaduct C Y O ET E TT S 7 N Q C onto Mealhouse Brow and walk down past LA U H N ON ELL ATO ARE E HE T S A Frederic Robinson Ltd TREE S E SG T AT R Stockport Dungeon to Little Underbank. E RG T TE E S S P 1 E TREET CH T T ST S A P TT E ON T E R S Mealhouse Brow was one of the oldest access roads to Stockport ’S T L O S Q W E U E R A R A R Market and Castle and took its name from the granary at the top. QU E S HI EY RS L E L M G F A The dungeon, with prison cells inside and the stocks L T St Peter’s Church ET E CH ER River Mersey STR outside, was the seat of justice in Stockport until the EE T W T E E The Plaza E L R L E T I T S N A 19th century. R G T G T E S O R CHE T T N TRE E E N STREE S T L LLINGTO R E F WE O ER P A P Stockport D T OO S S H O U Bus Station T H L A W R Turn right and walk to Staircase House. E NC E DUKE STRE L ET OR K T 5 6 STREET D E Staircase House is a restored 15th-century family home named for BAN TRE S S Start on Mersey Square outside the main entrance TREET W A ON D T Hat Works NG LI its magnificent carved wood stairs. Stockport Story Museum next 1 EL to Merseyway Shopping Centre. W SW A door traces local area history back 10,000 years. Access to both is via the adjoining INE Three of Stockport’s most famous sights can be seen from Mersey Square. Stockport Tourist Information Centre. S TR To your left is the distinctive Art Deco façade of The Plaza, whichEET opened in 1932 as a cinema and variety theatre and was restored in 2000. Walk to the traffic lights opposite St Mary’s Church is the oldest parish church in Stockport. The clock tower was rebuilt EET STR The Plaza, cross Chestergate and walk in 1810 after over-enthusiastic bell-ringers cracked it while celebrating Nelson’s victory E 2NG A High to the right of The Plaza, the large brick building with a tall chimney CH EX ET to your left uphill to St Peter’s Square. at Trafalgar! RE ST is the Hat Works. This former hat-making factory is the UK’sD only museum OO W Turn left onto St Petersgate and walk to of the hatting industry. Stockport was once a world centre of hat-making. St Petersgate Bridge above Little Underbank. Mercury used in the hat-making process could lead to mental illness, Continue across the bridge to Market Place, pass the hence the phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ and Stockport County FC’s nickname, Across the rooftops on your right, the brick building marked 3 4 front of the Covered Market (keeping it on your right). ‘the Hatters’. ‘Frederic Robinson Ltd’ is Robinsons Brewery, home of famous beers like Old Tom and Trooper. This was once the Unicorn Inn, Stockport has had a market since 1260. When the Covered Market opened in 1861, it was To the right of the Hat Works is the 26-arched Stockport Viaduct, which where the Robinson family founded the brewery in 1838. nicknamed the ‘glass umbrella’ because of its open-sided design. opened in 1840 to carry trains across the River Mersey.
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