In 1841 Salford was described as a township, manor, market town and parliamentary borough, the former wholly, the latter partly in the parish of Manchester. The parliamentary borough contains Salford, and Broughton, in Manchester parish; and Pendleton, and a portion of Pendlebury, in Eccles parish. Salford township extends over 1,350 acres, and is separated from Manchester by the river Irwell; it is the principal suburb of that town, and was a royal manor in the Saxon era.