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Salford is the historic centre of the Salford Hundred an ancient subdivision of Lancashire. The City of Salford is the fifth-most populous district in Greater Manchester. [4] The city's boundaries, set by the Local Government Act 1972, include five former local government districts.
All technically from Salford, or Broughton to be more precise, which has been part of Salford since 1853, despite the fact that, unlike the rest of Salford, it’s on the east bank of the Irwell and is geographically part of Manchester.
Salford ( / sɔːlfərd / SAWL-fərd) is a city in Greater Manchester, England. [2] [3] The city is situated in a meander on the western bank of the River Irwell which forms its boundary with Manchester and its city centre. Landmarks in the city include the old town hall, cathedral and St Philips Church.
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Salford has been overshadowed by Manchester for about a century, and received city status well over 50 years afterwards. But in the last decade, the ‘dirty old town’ of Salford has shown Manchester the way in terms of regeneration, even if its bigger neighbour has won all the kudos for its post-IRA bomb rebirth. What Manchester probably doesn’t wan...
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Irwell, Manchester’s political leaders were more interested in forging alliances with like-minded councils and the National Union of Mineworkers with a view to bringing down Margaret Thatcher’s government than selling the family silver to private interests, no matter how run down council-owned property was or how...
From that time on, with the nous of Sir Howard Bernstein and the new-found pragmatic leadership of first Stringer and later Sir Richard Leese, Manchester has eclipsed its neighbour. As a result, the Manchester “brand” has proved more attractive to investors. Since then, you can’t look left or right without seeing a crane in the city centre. But the...
Take away the signs which tell you that you are now in Salford or Manchester (or IN Salford to be more precise) and you’d be hard put to tell them apart. This is hardly surprising. They are twin cities built on manufacturing industry, cotton and engineering. The redevelopment of Chapel Street, New Bailey and Greengate is turning the twin cities int...
Today, with Covid effects aside, Manchester has a thriving service-based economy while Salford has been regenerated and rebranded as a hub for both business and leisure, including media companies in MediaCityUK; new office buildings such as the Digital World Centre; arts and culture at The Lowry; and waterfront homes and leisure amenities. What’s m...
Manchester and Salford are twin cities sharing the same city centre: Manchester city centre. Manchester city centre is always expanding, and in all ways. You’d be forgiven for describing a place on Chapel Street in Salford as in Manchester city centre, just as you would describe a place in Ancoats as in Manchester city centre. The luxury shopping a...
Salford, city and metropolitan borough in the west-central part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England. It lies immediately west of the city of Manchester. Flemish weavers first settled in Salford about 1360, and it became an important.
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The city centre has variously been defined as those parts of the city within the Manchester Inner Ring Road, or else the entire area within Manchester's Inner Ring Road, thereby encompassing a part of the administratively separate City of Salford, and an area of Oxford Road to the south.
Salford is about 200 miles north west of London. With excellent road and public transport links to all parts of the UK, the city is well placed as a visitor and commercial centre. And...
