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Kersal
Coordinates: 53°30′36″N 2°16′42″W / 53.510062°N 2.278237°W
Kersal is an area of the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) northwest of Manchester city centre.
Historically in Lancashire, Kersal has the second oldest building in Salford, Kersal Cell, which was built in 1563. Kersal Dale Country Park has been designated as a Local Nature Reserve and Kersal Moor as a Site of Biological Importance and Local Nature Reserve.
History
Kersal has been variously known as Kereshale, Kershal, Kereshole, Carshall and Kersall.
The name incorporates the Old English word halh, meaning "a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river". "Kersal" indicates that this was land where cress grew.
In 1142, Kereshale was given to the Priory of Lenton, an order of Cluniac monks, who established an early cell there named St Leonard's. On the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540 Henry VIII sold the priory and its lands to one Baldwin Willoughby. It was sold eight years later to Ralph Kenyon, who was acting on behalf of himself, James Chetham of Crumpsall and Richard Siddall of Withington. The Kenyon third was sold about the year 1660 to the Byroms of Manchester, whose line terminated on the death of Miss Eleanora Atherton in 1870. All the land eventually descended to, or was bought by, the Clowes family (the Lords of the Manor of Broughton) who began to sell off the land for development in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The most famous resident of Kersal Cell was John Byrom (1692–1763). It is said that he wrote the hymn Christians Awake there, but it is more likely that it was written at his home in the Old Shambles in Manchester above what is now the Wellington Inn.
