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| Name | Salford |
| Alt names | City of Salford | source: another description of Salford | | Broughton (near Salford) | source: wholly in Salford since 1853 | | Broughton Park | source: part of Broughton | | Higher Broughton | source: part of Broughton | | Lower Broughton | source: part of Broughton | | Ordsall | source: settlement in borough | | Ordsall in Salford | source: another description of above | | Ordsall-in-Salford | source: hyphenated | | Weaste | source: settlement in borough |
| Type | Borough (county) |
| Coordinates | 53.483°N 2.267°W |
| Located in | Lancashire, England ( - 1974) |
| See also | Salford Hundred, Lancashire, England | hundred in which it was located | | Manchester, Lancashire, England | ancient parish in which it was located | | Salford (metropolitan borough), Greater Manchester, England | metropolitan borough in which the former borough of Salford has been located since 1974 |
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- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
From 1844 to 1974 Salford was a "borough", a type of local government district, in the northwest of England, with the same boundaries as the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester which replaced it in 1974. It was located northwest across the River Irwell from Manchester, another borough of somewhat greater importance.
From the Norman conquest until the early 13th century Salford was a township in the ancient parish of Manchester within the larger territory knowns as the Salford Hundred. It was granted a charter by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, in about 1230, making Salford a free borough of greater cultural and commercial importance than its neighbour Manchester, although since the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that position has been reversed.
Salford was given the title of municipal borough in 1844 and graduated to the higher title of county borough in 1889 on achieving a population of 50,000. It was granted city status in 1926.
The title of County Borough allowed it to be independent of Lancashire County Council, but it remained part of the county for certain purposes such as lieutenancy, shrievalty, custos rotulorum and, most importantly, the administration of justice.
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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 and Pendlebury to the northwest, the Municipal Borough of Eccles to the southwest, and the Municipal Borough of Stretford to the south. The settlements of Pendleton (Salford), Ordsall and Weaste were settlements within Salford and have been redirected here. All have articles in Wikipedia.
History
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Salford was the judicial seat of the ancient hundred of Salfordshire.
Salford became a major cotton and silk spinning and weaving factory town and inland port on the Manchester Ship Canal in the 18th and 19th centuries. Industries declined in the 20th century, causing economic depression, and Salford became a place of contrasts, with regenerated inner-city areas like Salford Quays next to some of the most socially deprived and violent areas in England.
Salford has seen several firsts, including the world's first free public library, and the first street to be lit by gas.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Salford.
There are three articles on Salford in Wikipedia. Two have been quoted from here; the third is entitled the City of Salford and deals with Salford since it became part of Greater Manchester in 1974.
Broughton (Salford)
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Broughton is a suburb of Salford, England, on the east bank of the River Irwell northwest of Manchester city centre and 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south of Prestwich, and includes the neighbourhoods of Broughton Park, Higher Broughton and Lower Broughton.
Broughton was at first a township and chapelry in the parish of Manchester and Hundred of Salford. The former manor house, Broughton Hall, belonged to the Chethams and the Stanleys, both distinguished local families, and later passed, by marriage, to the Clowes family. Part of Broughton was amalgamated into the Municipal Borough of Salford in 1844, and the remaining area in 1853.
Together with neighbouring Whitefield, Prestwich and Crumpsall, Broughton is home to a large Jewish community.
Pendelton (Salford)
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Pendleton (redirected here) is now an inner city suburb of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) from Manchester city centre and west of central Salford. The A6 dual carriageway skirts the east of the district. Previously in Lancashire, Pendleton experienced rapid urbanisation during the Industrial Revolution.
Pendleton is now a densely populated area which has several high-rise blocks of flats, some of the tallest buildings in Salford.
Ordsall
Ordsall was a manor held for centuries by the Radcliffe family and is the subject of a sub-article in the Victoria County History of Lancashire. John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 describes it only as a railway station.
Research Tips
- Wikipedia article "City Status in the United Kingdom". The English concept of a "city" is different from that held in North America, and perhaps from that held in Europe and other parts of the world as well. In England the word "borough" better reflects the governmental status of a municipality.
- See the Wikipedia articles on parishes and civil parishes for descriptions of this lowest rung of local administration. The original parishes were ecclesiastical (described as ancient parishes), under the jurisdiction of the local priest. A parish covered a specific geographical area and was sometimes equivalent to that of a manor. Sometimes, in the case of very large rural parishes, there were chapelries where a "chapel of ease" allowed parishioners to worship closer to their homes. In the 19th century the term civil parish was adopted to define parishes with a secular form of local government. In WeRelate both civil and ecclesiastical parishes are included in the type of place called a "parish". Smaller places within parishes, such as chapelries and hamlets, have been redirected into the parish in which they are located. The names of these smaller places are italicized within the text.
- An urban district was a type of municipality in existence between 1894 and 1974. They were formed as a middle layer of administration between the county and the civil parish and were used for urban areas usually with populations of under 30,000. Inspecting the archives of a urban district will not be of much help to the genealogist or family historian, unless there is need to study land records in depth.
- Civil registration or vital statistics and census records will be found within registration districts. To ascertain the registration district to which a parish belongs, see Registration Districts in Lancashire, part of the UK_BMD website.
- The terms municipal borough and county borough were adopted in 1835 replacing the historic "boroughs". Municipal boroughs generally had populations between 30,000 and 50,000; while county boroughs usually had populations of over 50,000. County boroughs had local governments independent of the county in which they were located, but municipal boroughs worked in tandem with the county administration. Wikipedia explains these terms in much greater detail.
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
- FamilySearch Lancashire Research Wiki provides a good overview of the county and also articles on most of the individual parishes (very small or short-lived ones may have been missed).
- Ancestry (international subscription necessary) has a number of county-wide collections of Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, some from the 1500s, and some providing microfilm copies of the manuscript entries. There are specific collections for Liverpool (including Catholic baptisms and marriages) and for Manchester. Their databases now include electoral registers 1832-1935. Another pay site is FindMyPast.
- A map of Lancashire circa 1888 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time includes the boundaries between the parishes and shows the hamlets within them.
- A map of Lancashire circa 1954 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time is a similar map for a later timeframe.
- GENUKI provides a website covering many sources of genealogical information for Lancashire. The organization is gradually updating the website and the volunteer organizers may not have yet picked up all the changes that have come with improving technology.
- The Victoria County History for Lancashire, provided by British History Online, covers the whole of the county in six volumes (the seventh available volume [numbered Vol 2] covers religious institutions). The county is separated into its original hundreds and the volumes were first published between 1907 and 1914. Most parishes within each hundred are covered in detail. Maps within the text can contain historical information not available elsewhere.
- A description of the hundred of Salford from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
- A description of the township of Salford from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
- A description of the township of Broughton from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
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