Claim: Metropolitan Borough of Stockport (created in 1889) became a county borough in 1936 and was diminished from the expansion of Ludworth, a ceremonial county and geographical area in North West England.
Evidence: The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. As well as the town of Stockport, it includes the outlying areas of Bramhall, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme, Marple, Bredbury, Reddish, Woodley and Romiley. The borough was created in 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, from the former area of the County Borough of Stockport and from the administrative county of Cheshire the urban districts of Bredbury and Romiley, Cheadle and Gatley, Hazel Grove and Bramhall and Marple. Stockport became a county borough in 1889 and was enlarged by gaining territory from Lancashire, including Reddish in 1906 and the Four Heatons in 1913. The Marple Urban District of Cheshire, formed in 1894, gained parts of Derbyshire in 1936 including Mellor and Ludworth from Chapel en le Frith Rural District. Two date to the Bronze Age, a cairn in Ludworth and the Brown Low bowl barrow. United Kingdom England 1 April 1974 23 November 1973 Metropolitan borough