SALFORD, city ; municipal, county and parliamentary borough; Lancashire, England; 589 m. N.W. of London. Pop. (1931) 223,442. Salford also gives its name to the hundred of south-west Lancashire in which Manchester is situated. The par liamentary and municipal boundaries of Salford are identical. The parliamentary borough returns three members. The borough, composed of three townships identical with the ancient manors of Salford, Pendleton and Broughton, is for the most part separated from Manchester by the river Irwell. The Irwell valley, largely occupied by factories, separates the higher ground of Broughton from that of Pendleton. The chief railway station is Exchange station, on the L.M.S. railway, which is in Salford, but has its main approach in Manchester. Salford is well served with canals, the most important being the Manchester ship canal.
Salford has been to some extent overshadowed by Manchester, and the two boroughs in spite of their separate government, are so closely connected as to be one great urban area. Broughton
and Pendleton have each a separate town hall. Salford has 7 parks and 34 recreation grounds, covering 412 ac., about one twelfth of the city. The commercial and industrial history of Salford is closely bound up with that of Manchester. It is the seat of extensive cotton, iron, chemical and allied industries, large engineering and electrical instrument factories as well as works for the manufacture of furniture, rubber goods, mackintoshes, etc. Salford forms part of the port of Manchester and the largest docks on the Manchester ship canal are in Salford. It contains a number of valuable coal-mines and the deepest workings in Britain are at Pendleton. In recent years it has shared in the increase of trade owing largely to the construction of the Man chester ship canal. The water supply is from Manchester.