Stretford

Stretford (pop. 37,500) is a toun athin the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, Ingland. Lyin on flat grund atween the River Mersey an the Manchester Ship Canal, it is  tae the soothwast o Manchester ceety centre,  sooth-soothwast o Salford an  northeast o Altrincham. Stretford is contiguous wi the suburb o Chorlton-cum-Hardy tae the east, an the touns o Urmston tae the wast, Salford tae the north, an Sale tae the sooth. The Bridgewater Canal bisects the toun.

Historically a pairt o Lancashire, durin hintle o the 19t century Stretford wis an agricultural veelage kent locally as Porkhampton, a reference tae the lairge number o pigs producit for the nearby Manchester mercat. It wis an extensive mercat gardenin aurie an aw, producin mair nor  o vegetables each week for sale in Manchester by 1845. The arrival o the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894, an the subsequent development o the Trafford Park Industrial Estate in the north o the toun, acceleratit the industrialisation that haed begun in the late 19t century. Bi 2001, less nor 1% o Stretford's population wis employed in agricultur.

Stretford haes been the hame o Manchester United Football Club syne 1910, an o Lancashire County Cricket Club syne 1864. Notable residents hae includit the industrialist, philanthropist, an Manchester's first multi-millionaire John Rylands, the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, the painter L. S. Lowry, Morrissey o The Smiths an Jay Kay o Jamiroquai.

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Category:Touns in Greater Manchester
Category:Geografie o Trafford