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Inglaterra · the United Kingdom
In the destination Liverpool and Manchester.
In the photo: Former Eccles town hall.
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The city
The city of Salford, about 6 km from central Manchester, which gives its name to the Eccles cake, the raisin puff pastry sold there since the late 18th century. It sits beside the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal, where the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the rotating aqueduct of 1894, operates. Ordsall Hall and The Lowry, in Salford, are a few kilometres away.
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The local experience
A rotating aqueduct from 1894 that carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal. To allow ships to pass, the water-filled channel rotates on an island in the middle of the canal.
A Tudor manor house in Salford, with medieval elements, a main hall from the early 16th century and gardens. For centuries it was the home of the Radclyffe family and today it is a municipal museum.
Arts centre at Salford Quays, opened in 2000, with theatres and galleries housing works by L. S. Lowry, a Salford-born painter known for scenes of streets and factories in northern England.
