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Salamanca

Salamanca, designed and built by Matthew Murray in 1812, was the world’s first commercially successful steam locomotive.

Salford Docks

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Salford Quays

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.

Sandal Castle

Ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. One of two castles built overlooking the River Calder, it was built by the Warrennes, the Earls of Surrey who were Lords of the Manor of Wakefield.

Scammonden

Pennine village that was flooded in the 1960s when Scammonden Dam and the M62 trans-Pennine motorway were constructed.

Scammonden Reservoir

Reservoir in the South Pennines supplying water to Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.

Shakerley

Suburb of Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, anciently a hamlet in the northwest of the township.

Sharston Hall

Former manor house built in Sharston, an area of Wythenshawe, Manchester, England in 1701.

Shoddy and mungo

Manufacture of shoddy and mungo, an early form of recycling, was an important industry in the Heavy Woollen district of West Yorkshire.

Shuttleworth Hall

17th-century manor house in the civil parish of Hapton, in Lancashire