Sale, Greater Manchester

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Sale is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford of Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Mersey, 2 miles (3 km) south of Stretford, 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Altrincham and 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Manchester. Sale lies within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire and became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. At the 2021 census, the Sale built-up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, had a population of 62,550. Evidence of Stone Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon activity has previously been discovered locally. Sale was historically a rural township in the parish of Ashton upon Mersey; its fields and meadows were used for crop and cattle farming. By the 17th century, Sale had a cottage industry manufacturing garthweb, the woven material from which horses' saddle girths were made. The Bridgewater Canal reached the town in 1765, stimulating Sale's urbanisation. The arrival of the railway in 1849 triggered Sale's growth as an important...

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