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Barton upon Irwell

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Barton Old Hall, a brick-built house degraded to a farmhouse, was the seat of the Barton, Booth and Leigh families. The church of St Catherine, built in stone with an octagonal spire rising to 100 feet (30 m), was consecrated in 1843. The church was demolished in the 1970s due to dry rot and the
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The de Traffords believed in religious freedom and paid for churches and chapels of other denominations. Between 1865 and 1868, the Church of England St Catherine's Church was built at their expense to the rear of All Saints' Church. It was demolished in the late 1970s. The graveyard remains and is
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Barton upon Irwell Methodist Chapel, built in 1796, was a short distance from the bridge. The buildings were taken over in 1973 by the Church of the Nazarene, but were later abandoned and demolished in 2001 for housing, causing controversy over the treatment of the graveyard by the developers.
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was opened on 1 January 1930 and was the first permanent municipal airfield in the United Kingdom. Scheduled internal passenger flights operated in 1930 and again from 1934 to 1938, when the services were transferred to the new larger
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The SW portion of Barton showing the Bridgewater Aqueduct (left) and the road swing-bridge (right) crossing the Ship Canal, with adjacent housing
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over 700 aircraft were built here by F. Hills & Son and over 1,000 military aircraft were repaired by several firms. In 1946, the
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was carried over the canal by a low-level swing bridge, the opening of which for shipping to pass caused lengthy traffic delays to vehicles.
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and the River Irwell. A pair of ship locks is on the western edge of the district. It is also home to
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for Salford and a Cabinet Minister. Whilst the Barton Swing Bridge does feature in the 1961 film
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Before the Manchester Ship Canal was built, the Bridgewater Canal crossed the Irwell by a stone
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The Lords of the Manor; the de Traffords were Roman Catholics and the Grade I listed
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of three arches, which was the first constructed in England over a navigable river.
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over the Manchester Ship Canal. From the late 19th century, the road from Barton to
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Barton is about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west of Manchester, on both banks of the
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parish was merged with the neighbouring church of St Michael & All Angels,
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of Eccles in 1933 which was at the time part of the Lancashire
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and is the base for over 150 private and club aircraft.
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in 1974. Barton upon Irwell is currently represented in
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was built at their expense between 1865 and 1868 by
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Barton, Greater Manchester

Barton Swing Aqueduct
Bridgewater Canal
Manchester Ship Canal
Barton upon Irwell is located in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
2001 Census
OS grid reference
SJ762978
Metropolitan borough
Salford
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
M30
Dialling code
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
Greater Manchester
Ambulance
North West
UK Parliament

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