The Heaton closest to Stockport centre, dropping down to the viaduct and the Mersey. A township of hatters and rail workers; the M60 and Wellington Road cut through it in the 20th century.
Heaton Norris Park, the Wellington Road corridor and Stockport college students. The best-known landmark is Heaton Norris Park with its viaduct views, and the SK4 postcodes reach Heaton Chapel, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Reddish within a short drive.
For a house move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: steep terraced rows dropping to the Mersey, 1960s deck-access blocks off Wellington Road and postwar semis pinned along the valley slope. Steep streets funnel road spray onto lower brickwork and steps below Wellington Road.