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The hundred of Salford was an ancient division of the historic county of Lancashire, in northern England. It was established in the 12th century as Salfordshire – the name alluding to its judicial centre being the township of Salford (the suffix -shire meaning the territory was appropriated to the prefixed settlement). It is also known as the Royal Manor of Salford and the Salford wapentake.
   The area it occupied,, corresponds loosely to the modern metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, though excludes those parts from the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, as well as most of that that forms the modern Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. Its area also extended into territory north of what is now Greater Manchester, including parts of Rossendale and Todmorden.
   The parish of Manchester formed part of Salfordshire. It has been suggested that a Manchester-shire hundred wasn't favoured over one centred at Salford because Manchester had been ravaged as part of the Danish occupation.
   The parish of Rochdale, in Salfordshire, included the chapelry of Saddleworth from the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire.

Parishes and townships

Salfordshire comprised several parishes and townships during its history. These were not static, and changed according to the construction of churches and chapels and increases in population. For example, the township of Hundersfield was one of Rochdale parish's four original townships, but was itself split into four.(External Link

) Simillarly, Prestwich-cum-Oldham was later split into two separate parishes of Prestwich and Oldham. In 1830, Salfordshire was documented to consist of the following parishes and townships:

Hundred	Parish	Townships	Notes
Salford	Ashton under Lyne	Ashton under Lyne
	Bolton le Moors	Great Bolton, Little Bolton, Tonge-With-Haulgh, Sharples, Little Lever, Darcy Lever, Breightmet, Harwood, Bradshaw, Turton, Edgeworth, Entwisle, Quarlton, Longworth, Rivington, Anglezarke, Blackrod, Lostock	(External Link)
	Bury	Bury; Elton, Heap, Walmersley (with Shuttleworth), Tottington Higher End, Tottington Lower End, Musbury, Cowpe, Lench, Newhall Hey, Hall Carr	(External Link)
	Deane	Rumworth, Horwich, Heaton, Halliwell, Westhoughton, Little Hulton, Middle Hulton, Over Hulton, Farnworth, Kearsley
	Eccles	Barton, Pendleton, Clifton, Worsley, Pendlebury	(External Link)
	Flixton	Flixton, Urmston	(External Link)
	Manchester	Ardwick, Beswick, Blackley, Bradford, Broughton, Burnage, Cheetham, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Crumpsall, Denton, Didsbury, Droylsden, Failsworth, Gorton, Harpurhey, Haughton, Heaton Norris, Hulme, Levenshulme, Manchester, Moss Side, Moston, Newton, Openshaw, Reddish, Rusholme, Salford, Stretford, Withington	(External Link)
	Middleton	Middleton, Pilsworth, Hopwood, Thornham, Birtle-With-Bamford, Ashworth, Ainsworth, Great Lever
	Prestwich-cum-Oldham	Alkrington, Chadderton, Crompton, Great Heaton, Little Heaton, Oldham, Pilkington, Prestwich, Royton, Tonge
	Radcliffe	Radcliffe
	Rochdale	Castleton, Spotland, Butterworth, Wuerdle and Wardle, Wardleworth, Blatchinworth and Calderbrook, Todmorden and Walsden.	Rochdale also included the chapelry of Saddleworth from the West Riding of Yorkshire
West Derby	Wigan	Aspull	Aspull was a township in Salfordshire, but attached ecclesiastically to the Wigan parish of West Derby hundred.

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