page_title: City of Salford
section_title: Governance
hierarchical_section_title: City of Salford / Governance
caption_attribution_description: The 1937 building is of neo-classical style. Its most impressive feature is the clock tower, which is nearly 38m high and is 1.7m2 at its base. The clock face on each side of the tower is 2.7m in diameter. The digits of the clock are plain rectangular blocks of bronze, measuring 35x10cm and were covered in gold leaf.
context_page_description: The City of Salford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, named after its main settlement Salford. The borough extends west from Salford to include the towns of Eccles, Worsley, Swinton, Walkden, Little Hulton, and Irlam. The city has a population of 245,600, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton.
  The city's boundaries, set by the Local Government Act 1972, include five former local government districts. It is bounded on the south east by the River Irwell, which forms part of its boundary with Manchester to the east, and by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south, which forms its boundary with Trafford. The metropolitan boroughs of Wigan, Bolton and Bury lie to the west, northwest and north respectively. Some parts of the city, which lies directly west of Manchester, are highly industrialised and densely populated, but around one third of the city consists of rural open space. The western half of the city stretches across an ancient peat bog, Chat Moss.
  Salford has a history of human activity stretching back to the Neolithic age.
caption: Salford Civic Centre, in Swinton
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