Is Stockport in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, or just stockport?

Question

OK i live in Stockport we got an SK postcode even though every other District in G/Manchester has an M postcode... waaaa?

But our address also says Cheshire?

But we're also part of G/Manchester?

I'm confused :S

Answer 1

I don't blame you for being confused, but it's because they keep re-drawing the boundaries

we have the same in London, like Enfield Middlesex which is also in Greater London and has EN postcode ... a lot of people like thinking they're still in a county so they stick with it, even though they might have been gobbled up by the urban sprawl

Answer 2

In Greater Manchester, but historically, it was in Cheshire.

Answer 3

Manchester is a city- it has M postcodes

Stockport is a town- it has SK postcodes

They are both in the county of Greater Manchester. There are 10 metropolitan counties in Greater Manchester, but I can't name them off the top of my head

Cheshire is the old fashioned name- it doesn't exist anymore. In the same way people still say Manchester is in Lancashire. It's just that Cheshire sounds far grander than Greater Manchester!