Bredbury, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Stockport parish, Cheshire, adjacent to the Peak Forest Canal, 2 1/2 miles ENE of Stockport, with a station on the M.S. & L.R., and another at Woodley a hamlet in this township, at the junction of the same railway with the Cheshire lines. There is a post office at Woodley, under Stockport. The township includes the hamlets of Hatherlow and Woodley. Acreage, 2536; population, 3901. It is governed, together with Romiley, by a local board of 18 members, and contains collieries, brickfields, chemical works, wool-carding works, and two hat manufactories. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £313 with residence. The church is good, and there are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
