Sale, Cheshire

Sale is a town on the south bank of the River Mersey, about 8 km south-west of central Manchester, England, in the borough of Trafford. It lay in the historic county of Cheshire until it became part of Greater Manchester in 1974. The Bridgewater Canal reached Sale in 1765 and a railway opened in 1849 and made it a commuter town. The physicist James Prescott Joule moved here in the 1870s for his health, died at his home on 11 October 1889, and is buried in Brooklands Cemetery.

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