About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Bramall Hall, List of mills in Stockport, Merseyway Shopping Centre, Mellor hill fort, Grand Central Stockport, Edgeley Park, St Mary's Church, Cheadle, St Mary's Church, Stockport, Strawberry Studios, Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College, Vernon Mill, Stockport, Wood Mill, Woodley, Houldsworth Mill, Reddish, St. Elisabeth's Church, The Peel Centre, Stockport, Abney Hall, Hat Works, St Peter's Church, Stockport, Stockport College, Barnes Hospital, Stockport Castle, Stockport Town Hall, Broadstone Mill, Reddish, Wear Mill, Stockport, Staircase House, Aquinas College, Stockport, Marple Aqueduct, Chadkirk Chapel, Cheadle Lower Mill, Plaza Cinema, Stockport, Underbank Hall, Stockport Air Raid Shelters, Moseley Old Hall, Cheadle, Church of St Martin, Marple, Old Manor Farm, Marple, New Hall, Woodford, Brown Low, The Works Recording Studio, Houldsworth Working Men's Club, Mellor Hall, Wyberslegh Hall, Millington Hall. Excerpt: Bramall Hall is a Tudor manor house in Bramhall, within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is a timber-framed building, the oldest parts of which date from the 14th century, with later additions from the 16th and 19th centuries. The house, which functions as a museum, and its 70 acres (28 ha) of landscaped parkland with lakes, woodland, and gardens are open to the public. Dating back to Anglo-Saxon England, the manor of Bramall was first described in the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was held by the Masseys. From the late 14th century it was owned by the Davenports who built the present house, and remained lords of the manor for about 500 years before selling the estate of nearly 2,000 acres in 1877 to the Manchester Freeholders' Company, a property company formed expressly for the purpose of exploiting the estate's potential for residential building development...
