Salford
The City of Salford is a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England, named after its main settlement, Salford, which covers a larger area including Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district with city status with 249,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England
- Also known as: “City of Salford”, “Salford (unparished area)”, and “Salford Metropolitan Borough”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salford Royal Hospital and Eccles railway station.
Salford Royal Hospital
Hospital
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salford Royal Hospital is a large university teaching hospital in the metropolitan borough of Salford, England operated by Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. It was previously one of the top-performing hospitals in the United Kingdom.
Eccles railway station
Railway station
Eccles railway station serves the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Patricroft railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Patricroft railway station serves Patricroft in Greater Manchester, England. The station is on Green Lane, just north of the junction with Cromwell Road and just east of the Bridgewater Canal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salford and The Quays.
Salford
Photo: Craig Sunter, CC BY 2.0.
Salford is a city in Greater Manchester 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.
The Quays
The Quays covers the four areas of Salford Quays, Trafford Wharf, Old Trafford and Trafford Centre to the west of Manchester city centre.
Spinningfields-Albert Square
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Spinningfields-Albert Square covers the area in central Manchester north of Castlefield, east of Quay St and Peter St and west of St Peter's Square. It covers the locales of central Deansgate, Albert Square, as well as the newly developed business district of Spinningfields, and is focussed upon the heart of the city centre.
Salford
- Categories: metropolitan borough and unparished area
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Salford from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Salford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سالفورد”
- Azerbaijani: “Siti-of-Solford”
- Basque: “Salford”
- Belarusian: “Солфард”
- Breton: “Salford”
- Catalan: “Salford”
- Cebuano: “City and Borough of Salford”
- Chinese: “City of Salford”
- Chinese: “沙爾福特”
- Chinese: “索尔福德市”
- Chinese: “索爾福德市”
- Chinese: “蘇福市”
- Danish: “City of Salford”
- Dutch: “City of Salford”
- French: “cité de Salford”
- French: “Cité de Salford”
- French: “City of Salford”
- German: “City of Salford”
- German: “GB-SLF”
- Greek: “Πόλη του Σάλφορντ”
- Hebrew: “סלפורד”
- Irish: “Salford”
- Italian: “Città di Salford”
- Italian: “City of Salford”
- Japanese: “サルフォード”
- Japanese: “シティ・オブ・サルフォード”
- Korean: “시티오브솔퍼드”
- Kurdish: “City of Salford”
- Latvian: “Solforda (boro)”
- Latvian: “Solforda”
- Mazanderani: “سالفورد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “City of Salford”
- Northern Frisian: “City of Salford”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “City of Salford”
- Norwegian: “City of Salford”
- Persian: “سالفورد”
- Polish: “City of Salford”
- Russian: “Сити-оф-Солфорд”
- Russian: “Солфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “City of Salford”
- Slovenian: “City of Salford”
- Slovenian: “GB-SLF”
- Slovenian: “Mesto Salford”
- South Azerbaijani: “سالفورد”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Salford”
- Spanish: “Salford”
- Swedish: “City and Borough of Salford”
- Swedish: “City of Salford”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Salford”
- Turkish: “Salford”
- Ukrainian: “Солфорд”
- Urdu: “سالفورڈ شہر”
- Vietnamese: “Salford”
- Waray (Philippines): “City of Salford”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salford”
- Welsh: “Dinas Salford”
- Western Panjabi: “سالفورڈ”
- Yiddish: “סאלפארד”
- Yiddish: “סאלפֿארד”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Light Bourne Green and Dales Brow.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Manchester Childrens Hospital and Swinton railway station.
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