Salford
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.Photo: Andrewlee1967, Public domain.
Photo: Craig Sunter, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Old Trafford
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Old Trafford is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United.
Imperial War Museum North
Photo: pit-yacker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Imperial War Museum North is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Photo: Richard Rogerson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, in Peel Park, Salford, Greater Manchester, opened to the public in November 1850 as the Royal Museum and Public Library.
Localities in the Area
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
Photo: dalvenjah, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Castlefield-Petersfield
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Castlefield-Petersfield covers the area in central Manchester west of Quay St, Peter St, and Oxford St.
Salford
- Type: City with 259,000 residents
- Description: city in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Categories: big city, unparished area and locality
- Location: Salford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.4877° or 53° 29' 16" northLongitude
-2.2892° or 2° 17' 21" westPopulation
259,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)United Nations Location Code
GB SFYOpen Location Code
9C5VFPQ6+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 26867312OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2638671Wikidata ID
Q47952Salford Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: سالفورد
- Armenian: Սոլֆորդ
- Asturian: Salford
- Basque: Salford
- Belarusian: Солфард
- Bengali: স্যালফোর্ড
- Bulgarian: Солфорд
- Catalan: Salford
- Cebuano: Salford
- Chechen: Солфорд
- Chinese: 索尔福德
- Chinese: 索爾福德
- Chinese: 蘇福
- Czech: Salford
- Dimli (individual language): Salford
- Dutch: Salford
- Egyptian Arabic: سالفورد
- English: Salford, Greater Manchester
- Esperanto: Salford
- Finnish: Salford
- French: Salford
- Georgian: სელფორდი
- German: Salford
- German: Salford, Greater Manchester
- 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
- Lithuanian: Salfordas
- Low German: Salford
- Luxembourgish: Salford
- Manipuri: ꯁꯥꯜꯐꯣꯔ꯭ꯗ
- Mongolian: ꯁꯥꯜꯐꯣꯔ꯭ꯗ
- Norwegian: Salford
- Norwegian Bokmål: Salford
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Salford
- Persian: سالفورد، منچستر بزرگ
- Polish: Salford
- Portuguese: Salford
- Romanian: Salford
- Russian: Солфорд
- Scots: Salford, Greater Manchester
- Scots: Salford
- Serbian: Солфорд
- Silesian: Salford
- Slovenian: Salford, Anglija
- South Azerbaijani: سالفورد، منچستر بزرق
- Spanish: Salford
- Swedish: Salford
- Tagalog: Salford
- Tamil: சால்போர்ட்
- Tatar: Солфорд
- Telugu: సల్ఫోర్డ్
- Turkish: Salford
- Ukrainian: Солфорд
- Urdu: سالفورڈ
- Venetian: Salford
- Volapük: Salford
- Welsh: Salford
- Western Frisian: Salford
Other Places Named Salford
In the Area
- WeasteSuburb
- CharlestownSuburb
- MediaCityUKLocality
- Salford QuaysSuburb
- OrdsallSuburb
- MediaCityUKNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Salford. Photo: Craig Sunter, CC BY 2.0.