Sale, Cheshire

Description
Sale, a township and a parish formed originally out of Ashton-upon-Mersey parish, Cheshire, on the river Mersey and the Bridgwater Canal, 5 1/2 miles SE by S of Manchester, with a station on the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The township is governed by an urban district council consisting of fifteen members, and is a seat of petty sessions. Acreage, 2006; population, 9644. Part of the ecclesiastical parish of St John the Divine, Brooklands, is situated within the parish of Sale. There are several clubs, a free public library, a police station, botanical gardens, and a cemetery. Sale Old Hall, Sale Lodge, and The Priory are the chief residences. There are numerous beautiful villas, chiefly residences of Manchester merchants. Market-gardening is largely carried on. The ecclesiastical parish of St Anne, Sale, was constituted in 1856. Population, 5986. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £300. The church was built in 1854, is in the Early English style, and was enlarged in 1864 and 1887. The ecclesiastical parish of St Paul's, Sale, was constituted in 1884. Population, 3130. The church was erected in 1884, and is in the Early English style. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.