Chat Moss
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Chat Moss is a large area of peat bog that makes up part of the City of Salford, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It also makes up part of Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside and Warrington in Cheshire. North of the Manchester Ship Canal and River Mersey, 5 miles (8 km) to the west of Manchester, it occupies an area of about 10.6 square miles (27.5 km2).
Along Astley Road
View of the railway across Chat Moss, 1833
Part of Chat Moss known as Irlam Moss, showing the typical landscape of drainage ditches instead of hedges
View across Chat Moss towards the village of Glazebrook
City of Salford
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Salford, also known as the City of Salford, is a metropolitan borough with city status in Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton, Walkden and Pendlebury. The borough had a population of 278,064 in 2022, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton.
Salford Civic Centre, Swinton and the headquarters of Salford City Council
Kersal Cell, built in the 16th century, was a manor house built on the site of a Cluniac priory.
Former Salford Town Hall, Bexley Square
The Barton Swing Aqueduct in the closed position.