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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Charlestown like this:
CHARLESTOWN, a chapelry in Eccles parish, Lancashire; adjacent to the Manchester and Preston railway, near the river Irwell, in the northern part of Salford, suburban to Manchester. Post Town, Manchester. Pop., about 5,000. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester.
Charlestown is now part of SALFORD District. Click here for graphs and data of how SALFORD has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Charlestown itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Charlestown, in Salford and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25201
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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