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Salford (/ ˈ s ɒ l f ər d / SOL-fərd), [5] also known as the City of Salford, is a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury. [6]
Clifton was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Eccles in the hundred of Salford in Lancashire. [5] In 1866 Clifton became a separate civil parish, [6] on 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished to form Swinton and Pendlebury, part also went to Kearsley [7] and Clifton became part of the Municipal Borough of Swinton and Pendlebury and Kearsley Urban District. [8]
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Map of Greater Manchester, UK with Salford highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 165%: Date: 1 September 2013: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Most data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
Salford City Council is the local authority for the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority since 2011.
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When the administrative county of Lancashire was created by the Local Government Act 1888, Salford was elevated to become the County Borough of Salford and was, in modern terms, a unitary authority area exempt from the administration of Lancashire County Council. [66]
Eccles Town Hall. Eccles (/ ˈ ɛ k əl z /) is a market town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, [1] 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Salford and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Manchester, split by the M602 motorway and bordered by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south.