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 3.8 mile (6.1 km) tae the soothwast o Manchester ceety centre, 3.0 mile (4.8 km) sooth-soothwast o Salford an 4.2 mile (6.8 km) 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.

Stretford
Trafford Toun Hall in Stretford
Stretford Location within Greater Manchester
Population	37,455  (2001 Census)
• Density	9,158/sq mi (3,536/km2)
OS grid reference	SJ795945
• Lunnon	163 mi (262 km) SSE
Metropolitan burgh	Trafford
Metropolitan coonty	Greater Manchester
Region	North Wast
Kintra	Ingland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	MANCHESTER
Postcode destrict	M32
Diallin code	0161
Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North Wast
EU Pairlament	North Wast Ingland
UK Pairlament	Stretford an Urmston

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 500 long ton (508 t) 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.