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Torkington is part of the metropolitan borough of Stockport in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.
Administrative History
Situated in the historic county bounds of Cheshire, in 1875 Torkington was one of eight civil parishes to be included in the Stockport Rural Sanitary District which was included in the administrative county of Cheshire in 1889. The sanitary district became the Stockport Rural District in 1894. Five of the parishes of the rural district (Bosden, Bramhall, Norbury Cheshire, Norbury, Offerton, and Torkington) were included in the Hazel Grove and Bramhall urban district in 1900. The district was abolished, along with the administrative county, under the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974, and now forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.