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Other derivations are based on early variants such as Stopford and Stockford.

There is evidence that a ford across the Mersey existed at the foot of Bridge Street Brow.

Stopford retains a use in the adjectival form, Stopfordian, for Stockport-related items, and pupils of Stockport Grammar School style themselves Stopfordians.

By contrast, former pupils of Stockport School are known as Old Stoconians.

Stopfordian is the general term used for people from Stockport, much as someone from London would be a Londoner.