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Partington is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

Historically a part of Cheshire, The nearest village is Carrington.

Part of this town was also constructed as a Manchester overspill estate shortly after the World War II to rehouse people away from Victorian slums in areas such as Moss Side and Hulme.

Partington derives from Old English: the first element may be a personal name such as Pearta or Pærta, or part "land divided up into partitions" and -inga, meaning "people of". The suffix -tun means "farmstead". Partington was first recorded in 1260. Partington was in the medieval and post-medieval parish of Bowdon. The village consisted of dispersed farmsteads and did not have a nucleated centre. It was surrounded by wetlands on all sides, reducing the amount of land available for agriculture. According to the hearth tax returns of 1664, Partington had a population of 99.

On Wood Lane in Partington there is a paintworks. Partington was also the site of a paperworks more than 200 years ago.

In 1755 a paper mill was opened in Partington, it was the first factory established in Trafford and sat on the River Mersey. The completion of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894 made Partington a major coal-exporting port. The canal was widened to 250 feet (76 m) for three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) to allow for the construction of a coaling basin, equipped with four hydraulic coal hoists.

Partington became the nearest port to the Lancashire coal fields, and brought the south Yorkshire collieries 30 miles (48 km) closer to the sea. Between 1898–1911, exports of coal accounted for 53.4% of the total export tonnage carried by the ship canal. The coal trade in turn resulted in Partington becoming a major railway depot, and attracted a range of other industries, including the Partington Steel & Iron Company, which was encouraged by the availability of coal to construct a steelworks. The works became a part of the Lancashire Steel Corporation in 1930, and dominated the economy of nearby Irlam until their closure in 1976.

As of the 2001 UK census, Partington had a population of 7,327. For every 100 females, there were 92.3 males. The average household size was 2.29. Of those aged 16–74 in Partington, 65.1% had no academic qualifications or one GCSE, significantly higher than the figures for all of Trafford (40.8%) and in England (45.5%).[16] According to the census, 3.72% were unemployed and 36.69% were economically inactive.[17] 23.08% of the population were under the age of 16 and 5.02% were aged 75 and over; the mean age of the people of Partington was 36.22. 62.55% of residents described their health as "good".

The town was served by a railway station to the north of the town, the Cheshire Lines Committee Glazebrook to Stockport Tiviot Dale Line. The station was opened in 1873, eight years after the line opened, and was in use until 30 November 1964.

Did you know Partington found its way into the history books in the 10th century when a Dane with the unlikely name of Cythric Silkybeard led an army of Vikings up the River Mersey and, according to Anglo-Saxon records, slayed about 20 Partington citizens.

In the 13th century there was a Norbertine monastery in nearby Warburton. The ghost of a monk is supposed to haunt the passages of the old Rectory. It is said that a burial site for the monks lies beneath a mound east of Bluebell Woods - hence its name, Coroner's Woods.

For hundreds of years, Partington was a farming community, but 19th-century industrialisation transformed the area, as it did much of the North West. In 1871 the population almost doubled, with most of the influx of newcomers being employed in trade rather than agriculture.