Merseyway Shopping Centre is a

shopping complex A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known collec ...

Stockport Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here. Most of the town is within ...

Name

The centre's name, Merseyway, comes from the fact that the centre is supported above the

River Mersey The River Mersey () is in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. For centuries it has formed part ...

which runs for the length of the centre. Under Merseyway - geograph

History

The centre was opened in 1965, as one of the first shopping precincts in the

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. Since then, it has undergone considerable development. Merseyway was developed by

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and opened in 1965. It was purchased by Stockport Council in 2016. In 2017, the Merseyway car park to the north of the centre (between Princes Street and the M60 motorway) was developed as the Light cinema and Redrock leisure centre. At the beginning of 2022 it was announced that portions of the Mereseyway’s Adlington Walk will be repurposed to add additional facilities and a new library. Funding for the project was allocated by the government’s Future High Streets Fund (FHSF)

References

External links

Official Website
{{authority control Buildings and structures in Stockport Shopping centres in Greater Manchester River Mersey