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forms its southeastern and southwestern boundaries, and the
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was the first major company to move in, and by 1903 it was employing about half of the 12,000 workers then employed in the park, becoming one of the most important engineering facilities in
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in the world, and remains the largest in Europe. Trafford Park is almost entirely surrounded by water; the
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in 1896. Occupying an area of 4.7 square miles (12 km), it was the first planned
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