Quiet residential Stockport suburb around its own station and the Davenport Theatre site. Named for the Davenport family of Bramall Hall; built out as railway commuter housing from the 1860s.
Woodsmoor shops, Davenport Golf Club and a settled family base. The best-known landmark is Davenport station and Woodsmoor Lane's Edwardian villas, and the SK2/SK3 postcodes reach Stockport, Edgeley, Hazel Grove, Bramhall within a short drive.
For a house move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: large Edwardian and 1930s semis with long gardens and original bay windows. Tree-lined avenues drop heavy leaf and sap onto driveways and conservatory roofs.