The first part is usually agreed to come from the Common Brittonic word that survives in modern Welsh as coed ("wood").

[citation needed] The earliest evidence of civilisation is of burial mounds dating from the Iron Age, belonging to Celts who occupied Britain.

[6] A stone cross dedicated to him was found close to the confluence of the River Mersey and Micker Brook in 1873.

[7] It was held by Gamel, a free Saxon under Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester; it was about three miles long and half as wide, containing both wooded and open land, with areas enclosed for hunting purposes.

Geoffrey's descendant Robert (or Roger) died in the early 1320s, leaving the estate to his wife Matilda who held it until her death in 1326.

William de Bulkeley succeeded his mother, and was a participant in several wars in France for Edward, the Black Prince.

Richard died at the age of 21, then Margery married secondly without royal permission to Sir Randle Mainwaring.

[9] During the reign of Henry VIII, the current St Mary's Church on High Street was built.

It is surrounded by parkland which is open to the public all year round and features some of the only wetlands left in Stockport.

Cheadle grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution when it was used as a stopping point for travellers and merchants on their way to central Manchester.

Cheadle lies on the Cheshire Plain in the final meander of the Ladybrook Valley before it joins the River Mersey to the north.

Its geology is boulder clay and gravels: the parkland of Abney Hall to the north is on the flood plain of the Mersey.

Both townships also included areas on the western edge of the town of Stockport, known as the hamlets of Brinksway and Edgeley.

[28] There were some adjustments to the boundaries with neighbouring Wilmslow and Handforth in 1901, and the wards were restructured again, splitting Cheadle Hulme into north and south, and merging in Adswood.

[33] Cheadle's public transport is currently confined to bus routes provided by several operators, predominantly Stagecoach Manchester.

A number of houses in Cheadle that were built in the 1800s still stand today, in a conservation area in the centre of the village.

[37] At a later time the Nord Anglia Cheadle housed the International Schools and Learning Services divisions.