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The 12th century hundred of Salford was created as Salfordshire in the historic county of Lancashire and survived until the 19th century, [11] when it was replaced by one of the first county boroughs in the country. Salford became a free borough in about 1230, [12] when it was granted a charter as a free borough by the Earl Ranulph of Chester. [13]
Salford is the main settlement of the wider City of Salford metropolitan borough, which incorporates other towns including Eccles, Pendlebury, Swinton and Walkden. Nearby towns in other metropolitan boroughs include Stretford, Urmston, Bolton, Sale and Bury, Prestwich, and Radcliffe.
The City and County Borough of Salford was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 and its territory transferred to Greater Manchester to form part of the metropolitan borough and City of Salford. At abolition the county borough was surrounded by the City and county Borough of Manchester to the east, the Municipal Borough of Swinton ...
The M postcode area, also known as the Manchester postcode area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in the North West of England.. The districts are subdivisions of three post towns: Manchester, Salford and Sale and cover parts of all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, primarily the cities of Manchester and Salford and the majority of the borough of Trafford.
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The Pennines rise along the eastern side of the county, through parts of the boroughs of Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside. The West Pennine Moors, as well as a number of coalfields (mainly sandstones and shales) lie in the west of the county. The rivers Mersey, Irwell and Tame run through the county boundaries, each of which rise in the Pennines.
Wardley Hall is the residence of the Roman Catholic bishop of Salford. [1] Adjacent to it is St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, also known as Wardley Cemetery. Wardley Industrial Estate lies between the A6 (Manchester Road) and the A580 East Lancashire Road. Wardley means "clearing by a fort", from Old English weard "ward, protection" and leāh ...
The settlement of Salford had anciently been administered as a township within the parish of Manchester, which in turn formed part of the Salford Hundred. [3] Around 1230 the settlement was given a charter by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, who was the lord of the manor at the time, making it a seigneurial borough with a limited degree of self-government. [4]