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Salford Register office holds the registers for Pendleton and Pendlebury -

Kingslea, 

Barton Road, 

Swinton, 

Manchester, M27 5WH.
Tel: 0161 909 6501.    Fax: 0161 794 4797.
email birthsanddeaths1@salford.gov.uk  Cheques payable to City of Salford.

Pendleton - meaning "a town or habitation on a hill called Penn".

Pendlebury's records go back to 1201 when it was linked with the Manor of Shoresworth before that manor became part of the Salford borough area. One of the most interesting buildings in the area was Agecroft Hall that was erected of half-timbering on a stone base, by Sir Robert Langley in the 16th century. This handsome building stood until 1924. but in that year it was purchased by a Mrs Williams, dismantled and shipped by her across the Atlantic and re-erected at Windsor Farms in Virginia, where it is now a museum.

One of the greatest artists of our century, L S Lowry (1887 to 1976), lived in Pendlebury for 40 years. His parents came here from Rusholme, Manchester and it was the scenes in and around the Bolton Road area which first inspired Lowry to develop the style which has since made him famous. Many of Lowry's paintings are to be seen on permanent exhibition in Salford's Art Gallery.

This township was formerly in Lancashire in Eccles Ecclesiastical Parish and in the Salford Poor Law Union. In 1853 it became part of Salford Borough. In 1883 a small detached part (known as Shoresworth and included in Salford Borough from 1853) of Pendlebury township was added to Pendleton township. In 1892 there was an exchange of areas (Davyhulme area) with Barton upon Irwell township. In 1961 a part of Eccles Borough was added to the Pendleton area. Now wholly within Salford Metropolitan Borough.

In 1844 Salford Borough, comprising Salford township and part of Broughton township was established in place of the police commissioners. In 1853 Pendleton township, the remaining area of Broughton township and a small detached part (formerly known as Shoresworth and added to Pendleton township in 1883) of Pendlebury township were added to the Borough. In 1889 it became a County Borough. In 1892 there was an exchange of areas between Pendleton township and Barton upon Irwell township (in Davyhulme area). In 1926 the Borough received the title of City. In 1961 a very small part of Eccles Borough was added to it. In 1974 it became part of Salford Metropolitan District. Salford Hundred, also known as "Salford wapentake" and "Salfordshire", occupied the south-east part of Lancashire. It was a subdivision of the county used especially in some matters of taxation and justice. It also had a "court" used for various transactions of public business and cases of small debts. Exceptionally for hundred courts, that for Salford Hundred survived until the nineteenth century. Salford Metropolitan District (which received the title of City of Salford with effect from 1974) in Greater Manchester County was formed from the following areas: City of Salford (County Borough), Eccles Municipal Borough, Swinton and Pendlebury Municipal Borough, Irlam and Worsley Urban District of, Lancashire.

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