Museum · Stockport · Greater Manchester

Hat Works

Hat Works is a museum and former cotton mill Greater Manchester. It lies inside the built-up area of Stockport. Within 15 km there are 91 more places to visit, starting with The Manchester Museum (8 km).

Photo: Hat Works, Zzztriple2000 at en.wikipedia (Public domain)

Where

In Stockport

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 18–21°C

In brief

Museum in Stockport

Inside Stockport

Hat Works is inside Stockport’s built-up area, with 8 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

Month by month

In Stockport the warm season is June to September, with highs of 18–21°C.

Jan7° / 2°80 mm

Feb8° / 2°65 mm

Mar10° / 4°58 mm

Apr13° / 5°54 mm

May17° / 8°63 mm

Jun19° / 11°73 mm

Jul21° / 13°87 mm

Aug21° / 13°85 mm

Sep18° / 11°77 mm

Oct14° / 8°95 mm

Nov10° / 5°82 mm

Dec8° / 2°95 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Stockport, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Stockport. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Stockport’s full climate →

About

Hat Works

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 3 languages.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Stockport
Official site: stockport.gov.uk/topic/hat-works

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

Plan your visit

How to visit

Entrance feesFreeNo entrance fee.

Hours and entry: OpenStreetMap contributors. They change through the year: check its site before you go.

The map

Locating Hat Works

Orange marks Hat Works, and the numbered points match the list of places below.

Towns near it

Nearby towns

Manchester, with 470,395 people, is the largest of the 8. Pick a base: each town is a page of its own, with what else there is to see.

1 · It’s in town

Stockport

117,925 people · 24 places to visit

2 · 1.3 km north of it

Reddish

22,189 people · 18 places to visit

3 · 1.8 km northeast of it

Bredbury and Woodley

17,044 people · 8 places to visit

4 · 2.2 km southwest of it

Cheadle

14,437 people · 13 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Hat Works is	People	Places to visit
Stockport	It’s in town	117,925	24
Reddish	1.3 km north of it	22,189	18
Bredbury and Woodley	1.8 km northeast of it	17,044	8
Cheadle	2.2 km southwest of it	14,437	13
Bramhall	2.6 km south of it	17,201	20
Manchester	2.9 km northwest of it	470,395	68
Cheadle Hulme	3.2 km southwest of it	24,782	17
Hazel Grove	3.3 km southeast of it	20,163	18

Make a day of it

Make a day of it near Hat Works

There are 91 within 15 km, 5 museums, an art gallery and a cathedral among them.

MuseumThe Manchester Museum8 km away 2

MuseumEnglish Football Hall of Fame10 km away 3

Art galleryManchester Art Gallery9.4 km away 4

CathedralManchester Cathedral10 km away 5

Big drawMuseumScience and Industry Museum9.9 km away · 830K visitors a year 6

Historic houseBramall Hall3.9 km away 7

MuseumChetham's Library10 km away 8

MuseumImperial War Museum North11 km away · 2K visitors a year

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Hat Works, answered

Where is Hat Works?

Hat Works is in Stockport, Greater Manchester, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Hat Works?

Museum and former cotton mill Greater Manchester, England.

When is the best time to visit Hat Works?

June to September are the warmest months in Stockport, with afternoon highs of 18–21°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Hat Works?

Within 15 km: The Manchester Museum (8 km), English Football Hall of Fame (10 km), Manchester Art Gallery (9.4 km) and Manchester Cathedral (10 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Hat Works: Zzztriple2000 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
The Manchester Museum: DrPhoenix, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
English Football Hall of Fame: Marnanel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Manchester Art Gallery: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Manchester Cathedral: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Science and Industry Museum: Science Museum Group, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bramall Hall: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Chetham's Library: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Imperial War Museum North: Imperial_War_Museum_2008.jpg: pit-yacker from UK derivative work: IxK85, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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