Salford

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.
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  • Type: City with 259,000 residents
  • Description: city in Greater Manchester, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Salford, Greater Manchester”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Trafford and Salford Crescent railway station.

Stadium
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is a football stadium in the area of , England. It is the home ground of Manchester United. With a capacity of 74,158, it is the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom, and the eleventh-largest in Europe.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, opened by British Rail in 1987. The station is 1 mile west of , 1.75 miles west of and 2.25 miles west of .

Museum
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, in , , opened to the public in November 1850 as the Royal Museum and Public Library. The gallery and museum are devoted to the history of Salford and Victorian art and architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Quays and Spinningfields-Albert Square.

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covers the four areas of Salford Quays, Trafford Wharf, Old Trafford and Trafford Centre to the west of Manchester city centre.

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covers the area in central 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.

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covers the area in central west of Quay St, Peter St, and Oxford St. It covers the locales of Castlefield and Petersfield, which are within the Historic County Boundaries of .

Salford

Latitude
53.4877° or 53° 29′ 16″ north
Longitude
-2.2892° or 2° 17′ 21″ west
Population
259,000
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SFY
Open location code
9C5VFPQ6+38
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26867312
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2638671
Wiki­data ID
Q47952
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Satellite Map

Discover Salford from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Salford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سالفورد”
  • Armenian: “Սալֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Salford”
  • Azerbaijani: “Solford”
  • Balinese: “Kota Salford”
  • Basque: “Salford”
  • Belarusian: “Солфард”
  • Bengali: “স্যালফোর্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Солфорд”
  • Catalan: “Salford”
  • Cebuano: “Salford”
  • Chechen: “Солфорд”
  • Chinese: “沙柳津”
  • Chinese: “沙福特”
  • Chinese: “索尔福德”
  • Chinese: “索爾福德”
  • Chinese: “蘇福”
  • Czech: “Salford”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Salford”
  • Dutch: “Salford”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سالفورد”
  • Esperanto: “Salford”
  • Finnish: “Salford”
  • French: “Salford”
  • Galician: “Salford”
  • Georgian: “სელფორდი”
  • German: “Salford, Greater Manchester”
  • German: “Salford”
  • Greek: “Σάλφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “સેલફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “סלפורד, אנגליה”
  • Hebrew: “סלפורד”
  • Hungarian: “Salford”
  • Icelandic: “Salford”
  • Indonesian: “Salford”
  • Irish: “Salford”
  • Italian: “Salford”
  • Japanese: “サルフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಲ್ಫರ್ಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Солфорд”
  • Korean: “솔퍼드”
  • Kurdish: “Salford”
  • Ladin: “Salford”
  • Latvian: “Solforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Salfordas”
  • Low German: “Salford”
  • Luxembourgish: “Salford”
  • Macedonian: “Солфорд”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯜꯐꯣꯔ꯭ꯗ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salford”
  • Norwegian: “Salford”
  • Persian: “سالفورد، منچستر بزرگ”
  • Persian: “سالفورد”
  • Polish: “Salford”
  • Portuguese: “Salford”
  • Romanian: “Salford”
  • Russian: “Солфорд”
  • Scots: “Salford, Greater Manchester”
  • Scots: “Salford”
  • Serbian: “Салфорд”
  • Serbian: “Солфорд”
  • Silesian: “Salford”
  • Slovak: “Salford”
  • Slovenian: “Salford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالفورد، منچستر بزرق”
  • Spanish: “Salford”
  • Swedish: “Salford”
  • Tagalog: “Salford”
  • Tamil: “சால்போர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Солфорд”
  • Telugu: “సల్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Thai: “ซอลฟอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Salford”
  • Ukrainian: “Солфорд”
  • Urdu: “سالفورڈ”
  • Venetian: “Salford”
  • Volapük: “Salford”
  • Welsh: “Salford”
  • Western Frisian: “Salford”

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