Area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England at the terminus of the Manchester Ship Canal. Previously the site of Manchester Docks, also known as Salford Docks, it became one of the first and largest urban regeneration projects in the United Kingdom following the closure of the dockyards in 1982.
Salford Tart
Redirected to Manchester tart.
Sally Salisbury
Prostitute in early 18th-century London, celebrated for her beauty and wit. She achieved notoriety after stabbing one of her aristocratic clients.
Saltford Manor House
Grade II* listed house in Saltford, Somerset, thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited private residence in England.
Sam Hurst
English bare-knuckle boxing champion 1860–1861.
Samlesbury witches
Three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury – Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley – accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of practising witchcraft. Their trial at Lancaster Assizes in England on 19 August 1612 was one in a series of witch trials held there over two days. All three women were acquitted.
Sample size fallacy
Failure to consider sample size when estimating the probability of obtaining a particular value drawn from a known population.
Samuel Bamford
English radical and writer, born in Middleton, Lancashire.
Samuel Hibbert-Ware
English geologist and antiquarian.
Samuel Johnson
18th-century English writer, critic, editor and lexicographer whose Dictionary of the English Language had far-reaching effects on the development of Modern English.
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