Offerton, Greater Manchester

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Offerton
Location within Greater Manchester
OS grid reference SJ916885
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Region
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town STOCKPORT
Postcode district SK2
Dialling code 0161
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Greater Manchester
53°23′38″N2°07′33″W / 53.3939°N 2.1257°W / 53.3939; -2.1257

Offerton is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. Offerton was formerly a civil parish, which was abolished in 1900 to become part of Hazel Grove and Bramhall. A parish called Offerton Park existed between 2002 and 2011, which covered one of the area's housing estates. Offerton gives its name to an electoral ward, although the ward excludes the older part of Offerton around Offerton Green.

History

Offerton was historically a township in the ancient parish of Stockport, which formed part of the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire. [1] From the 17th century onwards, parishes were gradually given various civil functions under the poor laws, in addition to their original ecclesiastical functions. In some cases, including Stockport, the civil functions were exercised by each township rather than the parish as a whole. In 1866, the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws, and so Offerton became a civil parish. [2]

When elected parish and district councils were created in 1894, Offerton was given a parish council and included in the Stockport Rural District. [1] Shortly afterwards, Stockport Borough Council began campaigning to have the various small parishes just outside its southern boundaries (most of which had formerly been townships in the parish of Stockport) incorporated into the County Borough of Stockport. The five parish councils of Bramhall, Bosden, Norbury, Offerton, and Torkington collectively decided that they wished to resist being brought into Stockport, and therefore petitioned Cheshire County Council to create an urban district covering the combined area of their five parishes. [3] The county council agreed, and the parish of Offerton was therefore abolished in September 1900, with the area becoming part of the new civil parish and urban district of Hazel Grove and Bramhall. [1] [4]

Offerton remained relatively small at that time, comprising a scattered hamlet along Marple Road (later numbered as the A626 road) through Offerton Green. [5] In 1891 (the last census before the abolition of the parish), Offerton had a population of 372. [6]

Suburban development was subsequently built across much of the area of the former Offerton township, especially in the second half of the 20th century, notably at the Offerton Park estate and parts of the neighbouring Bosden Farm estate.

Hazel Grove and Bramhall was abolished in 1974 to become part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester. [7]

A new civil parish called Offerton Estate was created in 2002, and subsequently renamed Offerton Park in 2006. It covered one of the area's 1960s housing estates, rather than the whole area known as Offerton. The parish was abolished in 2011. [8] [9]

Offerton today is classed as part of the Stockport built up area by the Office for National Statistics. [10] Offerton is not a postal locality; the area has Stockport postal addresses.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Offerton Township / Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  2. ↑ Youngs, Frederic (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume II, Northern England. London: Royal Historical Society. p. xv. ISBN   0861931270.
  3. ↑ "Proposed new urban council". Manchester Courier. 12 January 1900. p. 10. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Local Government Board. 1901. p. 340. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  5. ↑ "Cheshire Sheet XIX". National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey. 1882. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  6. ↑ "Population statistics Offerton CP/Tn through tim". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "Local Government Act 1972: Schedule 1", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, 1972 c. 70 (sch.1), retrieved 15 January 2025
  8. ↑ Langston, Brett. "Stockport Registration District". UK BMD. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport (Reorganisation of Community Governance: Offerton Park) Order 2011" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  10. ↑ "Towns and cities, characteristics of built-up areas, England and Wales". Census 2021. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 February 2025.


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