Editing Greater Manchester (section)

===Salfordshire===
{{main|Salford Hundred}}
[[File:Greater Manchester (ancient).png|thumb|right|Greater Manchester lies at the conjunction of the [[Historic counties of England|ancient county boundaries]] of [[Cheshire]], Lancashire and the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]].]]
From the River Mersey to [[River Ribble]] was recorded as an area surveyed with [[Cheshire]] in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086; it is thought that the area was partially surveyed.{{sfn|Hartwell|Hyde|Pevsner|2004|p=18|ps=, quoting Redhead, Norman}}

Between [[Lancashire]]'s creation to the 18th century an ancient division of the shire, with a similar but smaller area to the current county, was known as [[Salford (hundred)|Salfordshire]]. The division (a [[wapentake]] which later became a hundred) had several parishes, [[Township (England)|townships]] and market towns. Other areas of what would become the county centuries later, to south of the Mersey and [[River Tame, Greater Manchester|Tame]], were governed under Cheshire while the Saddleworth area and a small part of [[Mossley]] are historically part of [[Yorkshire]]. [[Ludworth, Greater Manchester|Ludworth]] and [[Mellor, Greater Manchester|Mellor]] were historically in [[Derbyshire]], but were transferred to Cheshire in 1936.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ministry of Health Provisional Order Confirmation (Chester and Derby) Act 1936 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo5and1Edw8/26/10/pdfs/ukla_19360010_en.pdf |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=17 February 2025 |page=44}}</ref>