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Brinnington is a north-eastern suburb of
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 ...
,
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, England, on a bluff above a bend in the Tame Valley between the M60 motorway and Reddish Vale Country Park.


Description

Brinnington was open farm land before the local authority housing developments of the 1950s and 1960s. To the west of Brinnington is
Reddish Vale Reddish Vale is in the Tame Valley close to Reddish, Greater Manchester, England. The centre of the vale is around the bottom of Reddish Vale Road. Reddish Vale Country Park is a country park managed by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. ...
, a
country park A country park is a natural area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment. United Kingdom History In the United Kingdom, the term ''country park'' has a special meaning. There are around 250 recognised coun ...
popular with families to go for a walk and explore the ponds and brick viaducts; under the arches there is a sharp bend in the river and sand has been deposited giving the effect of a miniature beach. The area consists mainly of council owned dwellings including high rise flats. Brinnington has high crime levels and long-term unemployment at 20%. Two streets, Northumberland Road and Brinnington Road, were named by police as two of the three worst roads in north Stockport in 2010. The area has undergone regeneration, including the demolition of the Top Shops site, replaced with 53 shared ownership houses, and First House community centre which opened in 2007. In 2009, 17 new homes were built at Lantern Close, a new road named after the annual lantern parade in the area.


History

The name 'Brinnington' is derived from Old English. It means the 'farm (tun) called after Bryni (a personal name).' The location of the farmstead is unknown. Brinnington is not named in the Domesday survey of 1086 - it is believed to have been in the manor of
Bredbury Bredbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, east of Stockport and south-west of Hyde. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 16,721. It is on the lower southern ...
and probably became a barony of Stockport in the twelfth century. From the mid-fourteenth century, the lords of the land were the Duckenfield family. Under the Duckenfields, the southern third of the township was held as a demesne named
Portwood Portwood is an area of Stockport, England, just east of the town centre along Great Portwood Street. The part closest to the town centre contains Meadow Mill and is mainly given over to shops (including the Stockport Peel Centre, Peel Centre); the ...
. By the 1540s, the family had a residence (Portwood Hall), a deer park and a corn mill. The northern part of the township was common moorland known as Brinnington Moor. The area remained largely rural up until the 1950s. In 1754, only 15 families (104 individuals) were recorded. The population grew significantly throughout the nineteenth century, due to the development of nearby Portwood. In the early 1780s, the manor was acquired by James Harrison, a
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cotton merchant who, in 1786, built a bridge between Portwood and Brinnington, and in 1796, built a millrace (Portwood Cut) to bring water power to the area. The population growth of the Brinnington area was driven by these developments and in 1841 counted 5331 individuals. Since the council housing was built in the mid-twentieth century, the population naturally increased again as it transitioned from a rural to suburban area.


Transport

Brinnington is served by
Brinnington railway station Brinnington railway station serves Brinnington in the eastern part of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is a relatively new station, opening on 12 December 1977, by British Rail, on the line originally built by the Sheffield and Midla ...
on the Hope Valley Line from
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to
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. The estate is accessed via Brinnington Road, which crosses the
M60 motorway The M60 motorway, Manchester Ring Motorway or Manchester Outer Ring Road is an orbital motorway in North West England. Built over a 40-year period, it passes through most of Greater Manchester's metropolitan boroughs except for Wigan and Bol ...
at both ends. The original proposed
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would have charged motorists for crossing the
M60 motorway The M60 motorway, Manchester Ring Motorway or Manchester Outer Ring Road is an orbital motorway in North West England. Built over a 40-year period, it passes through most of Greater Manchester's metropolitan boroughs except for Wigan and Bol ...
; protests from local residents led to a change in the proposed boundaries, thereby excluding Brinnington from the charge zone.


Religion

Brinnington has two churches, St. Bernadette's (
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) and Brinnington Community Church at the Lighthouse Centre (
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).


Education

There are three primary schools, St. Paul's (Church Of England), St. Bernadette's (Roman Catholic) and Westmorland; the last being an amalgamation of the former Brindale, Maycroft and Tame Valley Primary Schools.


Health

A survey was done by a local GP to investigate why the depression rate in Brinnington was 23.6%, compared with an average of 9.8% in the rest of England. His records concurred. In his last 123 patients, 24% were seeking help with depression, while a further 28% were under treatment and 16% had been.


Law

Hollow End Towers in Brinnington were the subject of one of the leading cases on the
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of
nuisance Nuisance (from archaic ''nocence'', through Fr. ''noisance'', ''nuisance'', from Lat. ''nocere'', "to hurt") is a common law tort. It means that which causes offence, annoyance, trouble or injury. A nuisance can be either public (also "common") ...
,
Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan BC is an important English tort law case, concerning the rule in ''Rylands v. Fletcher''. Facts Transco plc (British Gas come commercial) had sued the council for repairs of £93,681.55 underneath one of its pipes in Brinnington. The ground beneat ...
.''Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan BC'' [2003
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External links

{{Public housing in the United Kingdom Areas of Stockport