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Six coins from the reigns of the Anglo-Saxon English Kings Edmund (reigned 939–946) and Eadred (reigned 946–955) were found during ploughing at Reddish Green in 1789. There is little evidence of a Roman military station at Stockport. Early Bronze Age (2000–1200 BC) remains include stone hammers, flint knives, palstaves (bronze axe heads), and funerary urns have been found in random places. The earliest evidence of human occupation in the wider area are microliths from the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic period (the Middle Stone Age, about 8000–3500 BC) and weapons and stone tools from the Neolithic period (the New Stone Age, 3500–2000 BC). The castle probably refers to Stockport Castle, a 12th-century motte-and-bailey first mentioned in 1173. Older derivations include stock, a stockaded place or castle, with port, a wood, hence a castle in a wood. The currently accepted etymology is Old English port, a market place, with stoc, a hamlet (but more accurately a minor settlement within an estate) hence, a market place at a hamlet. Stockport was recorded as "Stokeport" in 1170. Historically, most of the town was in Cheshire, and from the point of view of family history, will be considered as such. Stockport /ˈstɒkpɔːrt/ is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Manchester city center, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey, the river on which Liverpool stands.
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