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Download our
32-page illustrated booklet on the history of
Davenport published in 2007 (2.8MB PDF) Our Document Archive of Stockport directories, etc. The J.W. Sutherland Photographic collection. Includes many pictures of local railway scenes. Feature articlesEdmund Harley Bennett and
Operation Foxley: a wartime hero in waiting (2018) Cale Green Farm and Park (2018): The history of the farm which became our local park, and its former wealthy owners. Williams Deacons Bank (2017) marking the closure of our last bank branch, and remembering some of its neighbours Tasmania Cottage and its neighbours: some tales of Adswood Lane West (2017) John Williams & Sons: A Davenport family with a chain of grocery shops (2017) Davenport Post Office: a century of service (2016) Postcard from Davenport No.6: Belthorn, Davenport Park Road (2015) Ephraim Hallam's legacy: Some Davenport shops and their neighbours (2015) James Shepherd, Shird Fold and the Power Pulley: stories of a Davenport house and its namesake (2014). A Tram on the A6, and other stories: transport then and now, with the story of some Buxton Road houses and their residents (2014). Bamford Grange: a house in Adswood and its past residents (2014) Jesse Lumb and the Crescent: a Yorkshire mill owner's investment (2013-4) Beaconsfield and the Mormon Church: A lost mansion, a family story and a modern church. (2013) Bullock Brothers, Photogaphers (2012) Early Days at Davenport: from 1858, including the lives of the first three station masters (2011) Frederick Davenport Bates: artist who adopted the name (2011) The Reinbek story: last of the big houses to be built, now a care home (2011-3) James Patchell Chettle, 1871-1944: Davenport artist (2011-2) The account book of 'The Alders', The Crescent, 1899-1917 (2009-12) Postcard from Davenport, no.1: a view on Bramhall Lane (2007) Postcard from Davenport, no.2: as seen from the bridge, including the story of Bramall Mount (2009-11) Postcard No. 3: Bramhall Lane South: over the border. The life and times of Mrs Jepson (2011) A postcard from Oberhofen: researching a house on The Crescent (2012) Postcard from Davenport No.5: Bramhall Lane and Frewland Avenue (2014) Who was Winifred? The story behind some street names (2012) Davenport
Junction
and The Khyber A lost railway route (2006)
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The History of Davenport
Davenport, a residential suburb which lies on the outskirts of the town of Stockport in Greater Manchester, takes its name from its railway station, itself named after the Davenport family which for centuries lived at Bramall Hall. When the railway came to the area in the 1850s in the shape of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge line, there was no settlement here; it was just a remote corner of the Davenport family's estate. However, the Davenports had ideas of developing this part of their land as a residential suburb.
The station was built at the point where the Stockport
to Bramhall road, believed by some to be a Roman Road,
crossed the railway; the station was not actually built in
time for the opening of the line in 1857, but the
following year, 1858 after complaints from the Davenports
that a station had been promised, as small station was
built. It was named Davenport after its sponsors. Not long
afterwards, however, the Davenports sold all their land,
including what is now Davenport, much of it to a property
company, and moved away from the area. A few large houses
were constructed around the station in its early years,
several of them to be occupied by moguls of the hatting
and cotton-spinning industries for which Stockport is
famous. ![]() The map above shows the station area as it was in the
1870s. ![]()
Updated September 2017. Comments welcome at info@davenportstation.org.uk |