SALFORD (HUNDRED)

The hundred of 'Salford' (sometimes known as the 'Salford wapentake' or 'Salfordshire'^[1]) was an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, in northern England.
The area it occupied corresponds loosely to the modern metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, though excludes those parts from the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, as well as most of that that forms the modern Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.
The parish of Rochdale, in the Salford Hundred of Lancashire, also included the chapelry of Saddleworth from the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire.^[2]
Its area also extended into territory north of what is now Greater Manchester, including parts of Rossendale and Todmorden.

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Parishes

References

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Parishes

The Hundred of Salford comprised the following ten parishes:

★ Ashton under Lyne

★ Bolton le Moors

★ Bury

★ Deane

★ Eccles

★ Manchester

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★ including Salford

★ Middleton

★ Prestwich-cum-Oldham

★ Radcliffe

★ Rochdale

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★ including Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The Township of Aspull was also part of the Salford Hundred, although it came under the Parish of Wigan which was in the Hundred of West Derby.
The Parish of Hundersfield was at one time also part of the Salford Hundred.

References

1. A select gazetteer of local government areas, Greater Manchester County Anon
2. The Hundred of Salford British History Online

External links

★ http://www.mancuniensis.info/Maps/salfh_xs.pdf