Bredbury is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 8 miles south-east of Manchester, 2 miles east of Stockport and 3 miles south-west of Hyde. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 16,721. Bredbury is on the lower southern slopes of Werneth Low, an outlier of the Pennines; it lies between the valleys of the River Tame and River Goyt, head-waters of the River Mersey.