Torkington
TORKINGTON, a township, in the parish and union of Stockport, hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Stockport; containing 345 inhabitants. It comprises 670 acres, the soil of which is partly clay.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.