STOCKPORT, (Cheshire) or STOPFORD, 6 m. N.E. from Altrincham, 132 cm. 160 mm. from London, on the S. side of the r. Mersey, had formerly its Barons, who, after the R. of Henry IV. were the Warrens of Pointon. It has a Mt. on F. and Fairs on March 2, April 22, Holy-Th. and Corpus-Christi-day. Its rectory is valued at 700 l. a year. In 1742, the Pt. passed an act for making a sluice or tunnel through part of the Glebe bel. to it, for conveying water to its mills. 'Tis a T. of good entertainment, with a bridge over the r. which was blown up, to prevent the retreat of the rebels this way in 1745, so that the K's. forces, then in pursuit of them, were obliged to ford it up to their wastes. The naturalists have observed a rare plant here, called the cerafus, or small wild heart-cherry tree; and in the neighbourhood has been found the bolemnites, or thunderbolt, in a free-stone rock.