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Swinton is a city in Greater Manchester, England, southwest of the River Irwell, 3.4 miles northwest of Salford and 4.2 miles northwest of Manchester, adjoining the cities of Pendlebury and Clifton. In 2014, it had a population of 22,931. Historically in Lancashire, for centuries Swinton became a small hamlet inside the township of Worsley, parish of Eccles and hundred of Salfordshire. The call Swinton is derived from the Old English "Swynton" which means "swine metropolis".

In the High Middle Ages, Swinton turned into held by using the spiritual orders of the Knights Hospitaller and Whalley Abbey. Farming turned into the principle industry, with locals supplementing their incomes by way of hand-loom woollen weaving within the domestic gadget. Collieries opened within the Industrial Revolution and Swinton became an important business location with coal offering the fuel for the cotton spinning and brickmaking industries.

Bricks from Swinton had been used for business initiatives which include the Bridgewater Canal, which passes Swinton to the south. The adoption of the manufacturing unit machine facilitated a method of unplanned urbanisation within the area, and by using the mid-nineteenth century Swinton become an important mill city and coal mining district at a convergence of factories, brickworks and a newly constructed avenue and railway network.

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