Sale
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town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England
Key facts
- Population
- 62,550 (Built up area, 2021)
- Os grid reference
- SJ785915
- London
- 162 mi (261 km) SE
- Metropolitan borough
- Trafford
- Metropolitan county
- Greater Manchester
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Post town
- SALE
- Postcode district
- M33
- Dialling code
- 0161
- Police
- Greater Manchester
- Fire
- Greater Manchester
- Ambulance
- North West
- Uk parliament
- Altrincham and Sale West Wythenshawe and Sale East
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Trafford
- Population
- 134022
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Stretford
- Official website
- www.salecommunityweb.co.uk
- Image
- Sale Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1749852.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0161
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- Commons category
- Sale, Greater Manchester
- topic's main category
- Category:Sale, Greater Manchester
- postal code
- M33
- OS grid reference
- SJ785915
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sale, Greater Manchester
- category for people born here
- Q32186007
- P8168
- Pagalungan
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Sale is a town in the Trafford district 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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