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"TORKINGTON, a township in the parish of STOCKPORT, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Stockport, containing 293 inhabitants." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Torkington was a township in Stockport ancient parish, Macclesfield hundred (SJ 9386), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The civil parish was abolished in 1900 to become part of Hazel Grove & Bramhall
- The population was 218 in 1801, 358 in 1851, and 339 in 1901.
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- 1900 September 30 — Abolished and incorporated into Hazel Grove and Bramhall (pop. 339 in 1901)
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- Stockport Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Stockport Rural District (1894-1900)