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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Trafford like this:
TRAFFORD (Old), a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Altrincham railway, in the SW outskirts of Manchester city. It was constituted in 1858; it has a r. station with telegraph; and it contains the botanic garden, the asylum for the blind, and schools for the deaf and dumb. Post town, Manchester. Pop. in 1861, 2,184. Houses, 336. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £498. Patron, the Bishop of M.
Trafford is now part of TRAFFORD District. Click here for graphs and data of how TRAFFORD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Trafford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Trafford in Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/17305
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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