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Ordsall, Salford — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ordsall is an inner-city district of Salford, held between the River Irwell, Salford Quays and the Manchester Ship Canal.
About Ordsall
Where to stay in Ordsall
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The Lowry pulls the beds this way. Salford Quays gathers the visitor traffic that Imperial War Museum North and The Lowry generate, and rooms taken at that end sit within a walk of both. Ordsall Hall stands inland from them. Older Ordsall, St Clement's Church, the streets off the A57, is residential, and a bed there trades the waterfront for a shorter crossing of the River Irwell into Manchester.
About Ordsall
What are the main landmarks in Ordsall?
Two big draws sit at the water. Imperial War Museum North and The Lowry stand at Salford Quays, while Ordsall Hall shares the district's name and holds ground inland from the Manchester Ship Canal. Churches fill out the register.
St Clement's Church, St Philip's Church, the Stowell Memorial Church and the Church of St Ignatius of Antioch are all listed, with Joule House and the Botanical Gardens Cricket Ground on the same roll and Salford Museum and Art Gallery a short way off.
What is the history of Ordsall?
Ordsall Hall keeps the name. The hall is the district's own inheritance, while the water around it, the River Irwell along the Manchester boundary, the Manchester Ship Canal dividing Ordsall from Stretford, belongs to the working geography that made this an inner-city quarter of Salford. Salford supplies no year for Ordsall's beginning.
What the sources give is a name shared by hall and district, a run of dedications from St Clement's Church to the Church of St Ignatius of Antioch, and a boundary drawn by water.
Where is Ordsall?
Ordsall lies chiefly south of the A57 in Salford, with the River Irwell marking the Manchester boundary and the Manchester Ship Canal dividing it from Stretford.
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Updated September 2026