Walkden is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, six miles northwest of Salford, and seven miles of Manchester.
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15 Facts About Walkden
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Walkden'storically in the township of Worsley in Lancashire, Walkden was a centre for coal mining and textile manufacture.
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In 1313, in a dispute involving land, a jury decided that Walkden was too small to be considered a hamlet or a town but was "only a place in Farnworth".
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In 1765 "Walkden Moor" was the subject of a parliamentary Enclosure Act.
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At one time Walkden was dominated by coal mines and textile manufacturing.
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Until 1894, Walkden lay within the township of Worsley in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Eccles, within the Hundred of Salford in the historic county of Lancashire, although some parts including Linnyshaw and Toppings Bridge were within the parish of Deane.
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Walkden was amalgamated into the City of Salford metropolitan district of Greater Manchester in April 1974, as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, having previously formed part of the Worsley Urban District in the administrative county of Lancashire.
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Walkden is part of the Worsley and Eccles South parliamentary constituency.
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Between 1885 and 1983 Walkden lay in the now defunct Farnworth constituency and before that, from 1868 to 1885, within the South East Lancashire constituency.
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Walkden is situated at the junction of the A6 Manchester to Chorley road, the A575 Worsley to Moses Gate, Farnworth road and the B5232.
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The M61 to the east of Walkden is in the Guinness Book of Records for being the widest section of motorway in Britain, .
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Walkden has several primary schools, two high schools and a sixth form college which include Co-op Academy Walkden and The Lowry Academy.
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Until 2014 Walkden had three high schools, before the closure of St George's RC High School in July 2014.
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The foundation stone for St Paul's at Walkden Moor was laid in 1847 by Lady Brackley, daughter of the Earl of Ellesmere.
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