Etymology

Stockport

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Today it means: A market town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8990). Full definition →

Old English stoc
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The story

  1. Old English · derived fromstoc“house, dwelling; place”
  2. English todayStockport

From Old English stoc (“house, dwelling; place”) + port (“port; market town”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishstoc all →

stokeStoughtonTavistock

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.