Walkden

Walkden is a rural town in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, 6 miles northwest of Salford, and 7 miles of Manchester. Truly in the township of Worsley in Lancashire, Walkden was an inside for coal mining and material produce. In 2014, the constituent wards of Walkden North, Walkden South and Little Hulton had a consolidated populace of 35,616. The name Walkden or Walkeden gets from the Old English denu, a valley, having a place with a man perhaps called Wealca more, an Old English individual name. It has been in presence since at any rate the 13^th century. The name was recorded in archives dating to 1246. In the neighborhood lingo and emphasize, it is articulated Wogden.

A Roman street crossed the region generally at stake of the present A6 street through Walkden and Little Hulton. In 1313 out of a question including land, a jury chose that Walkden was too little to be in any way thought about a village or a town yet was "just a place in Farnworth". In the 15^th century Walkden seems to have secured a more extensive zone than at present, spreading into Farnworth and Little Hulton. In 1765 'Walkden Moor' was the subject of a parliamentary Enclosure Act. The Duke of Bridgewater was the greatest landowner in 1786, owning over a large portion of the land. At one time Walkden was the inside for coaling mines and material assembling.