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Swinton is a town in the in , England. southwest of the River Irwell, 4 miles northwest of , adjoining the town of and suburb of Clifton.
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  • Type: Town with 20,000 residents
  • Description: town within the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England
  • Also known as: “Swinton, Greater Manchester”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Salford Civic Centre and Church of St Peter.

Town hall
Photo: D.A.Howcroft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formerly Swinton and Pendlebury Town Hall, is a municipal building at Chorley Road, in Swinton, Greater Manchester, England. It is the administrative headquarters of Salford City Council.

Church
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The is an Anglican parish church on Chorley Road in Swinton, a town in the , Greater Manchester, England. Serving the historic parish of Swinton and , it forms part of the ecclesiastical deanery of in the Diocese of Manchester.

Railway station
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serves the towns of Swinton and in the , , . It is actually located in Pendlebury and not Swinton itself; the boundary between the two districts is about 40 yards further down Station Road, beyond the junction with Boundary Road and nearer the town centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pendlebury and Irlams o’ th’ Height.

Town
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is a town in the , , England. The population at the 2011 Census was 13,069. It lies 4 miles north-west of , 3 miles north-west of Salford and 6 miles south-east of .

Suburb
Irlams o' th' Height is a suburb of , , England, on top of the Irwell Valley, on higher ground than , hence the name.

Town
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Salford is a city in in northwest England, with a population of 130,000 in 2021. It's separated from the City of Manchester by a loop of the River Irwell. Its biggest attraction is the Quays, but this area is described on a separate page. is situated 1½ miles southwest of Swinton.

Swinton

Latitude
53.50954° or 53° 30′ 34″ north
Longitude
-2.3418° or 2° 20′ 31″ west
Population
20,000
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SWN
Open location code
9C5VGM55+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27329919
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636373
Wiki­data ID
Q2575363
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Swinton” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Swinton”
  • Basque: “Swinton (Manchester Handia)”
  • Basque: “Swinton”
  • Cebuano: “Swinton”
  • Chinese: “斯温顿 (大曼彻斯特)”
  • Chinese: “斯温顿”
  • Chinese: “斯溫頓 (大曼徹斯特)”
  • Chinese: “斯溫頓”
  • Dutch: “Swinton”
  • French: “Swinton”
  • German: “Swinton”
  • Hebrew: “סווינטון”
  • Irish: “Swinton, Manchain Mhór”
  • Irish: “Swinton”
  • Italian: “Swinton”
  • Japanese: “スウィントン”
  • Ladin: “Swinton (Lancashire)”
  • Ladin: “Swinton”
  • Latvian: “Svintona”
  • Northern Frisian: “Swinton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swinton i Greater Manchester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swinton i Stor-Manchester”
  • Persian: “سوین‌تون، گریتر منچستر”
  • Polish: “Swinton”
  • Romanian: “Swinton, Greater Manchester”
  • Romanian: “Swinton”
  • Silesian: “Swinton (Greater Manchester)”
  • Silesian: “Swinton”
  • Slovenian: “Swinton”
  • Spanish: “Swinton”
  • Swedish: “Swinton, Greater Manchester”
  • Swedish: “Swinton”
  • Welsh: “Swinton, Manceinion Fwyaf”
  • Welsh: “Swinton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Swinton”. Photo: D.A.Howcroft, CC BY-SA 3.0.