Coors has sponsored English rugby league side Workington Town from the 2007 season, as well as British Ice Hockey Team, The Belfast Giants.

Historically a part of Cumberland, the area around Workington has long been a producer of coal, steel and high-grade iron ore.

Historically a part of Cumberland, the area around Workington has long been a producer of coal, steel and high grade iron ore.

While successful efforts have been made to find appropriate local names for the major streets of the new shopping centre, the initial planning title of Washington Square has been retained ; there is concern is over the use of the word Washington, an Anglo-Saxon word meaning the settlement of the people of ' Wash ' for the new square in Workington, which means settlement of the people of ' Weorc '.

Workington Opera House has also hosted many circus shows which included elephants and other circus animals performing on stage.

The town has a football team Workington Association Football Club's with a stadium at Borough Park, formerly a professional football team it now competes as non-League club.

The town has a professional rugby league team: Workington Town located at Derwent Park stadium

Speedway returned to Workington and the team has operated with varying degrees of success, but in 2008, they won the Young Shield and the Premier League Four-Team and Pairs Championships.

The original article had summed up the situation in terms of the long-term rivalry between Whitehaven and nearby Workington: “ Legend has it that one town ’ s miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants .” A reader from Maryport, a few miles further up the Cumbria coast ( which, as occasionally mentioned in discussions on the topic, used to have a jam factory ) reported that he had understood the term originally referred to people from Whitehaven, and this was echoed in the comments on the Whitehaven News article, suggesting that a former distinction between the Whitehaven " jam eaters " and Workington " high siders " had gradually been lost in the trading of insults across the Rugby pitch.

Industrialisation and hence work has moved to the west coast around Carlisle and Workington, and servicing the nuclear facilities at Sellafield.

Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham ( born 16 September 1952 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Workington since 2001.

Iggesund Paperboard has two paperboard mills ; one in Iggesund, Sweden and one in Workington, England,

The group has 75 officers located at Carlisle, HQ, Workington, Kendal and Ulverston.

The 4th Battalion has its RHQ and HQ Company at Preston, A Company is at Liverpool, B ( Somme ) Company is at Blackburn and Blackpool, C Company is at Workington, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle and Lancaster.

McGarry joined Ipswich in 1964, and was replaced by player-manager Ken Furphy, from Workington Furphy rebuilt the team around players such as Keith Eddy and Dennis Bond, but after holding Liverpool to a draw in the FA Cup and narrowly failing to win promotion in 1966 – 67, Bond was sold to Tottenham for £ 30, 000, Watford's record transfer receipt at the time.

Tony Cunningham is the local MP for the constituency of the same name that includes other towns in the hinterland of Workington.

Tesco stated that they were still seeking a site for a store of around in Workington to replace the established store.

During World War II, a strategically important electric steel furnace which produced steel for aircraft engine ball bearings was relocated to Workington from Norway to prevent it falling into Axis hands.

However welding work on rails produced at Corus Groups ' French plant in Hayange continued at Workington for another two years, as the Scunthorpe site initially proved incapable of producing rails adequately.

In the past Workington was a big town for variety acts and theatre and hosted many top acts including Tommy Cooper and Shirley Bassey.

The " Opera Action " group plan to restore the Workington Opera House into a working theatre to revitalise the economy of Workington and provide top quality entertainment for the people of West Cumbria.

* Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours ( 1943 -)-Labour politician and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Workington from 1979 to 2001.

* Thomas Cape M. B. E ( 1868 – 1947 )-Labour politician and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Workington from 1918 to 1945.

* James Duffield ( 1835 – 1914 ) and Josiah Purser ( 1848 – 1928 )-Responsible for moving the entire Dronfield steelworks ( opened in 1873 ) to Workington in 1882.

* Fred Peart, Baron Peart Member of Parliament for Workington from 1945 to 1976.

RE Plant Operators construct foundations for a new bridge in Workington after floods

Workington rose to 18th by the end of the 1953 – 54 season and so did not have to apply for re-election.

Tynemouth is the end point for the long Sea to Sea Cycle Route from Whitehaven or Workington in Cumbria.

Tony Cunningham was elected at the 2001 general election for the safe Labour seat of Workington on the retirement with a peerage of Dale Campbell-Savours.

Page won the seat of South West Hertfordshire in a by-election in 1979, having previously been MP for Workington from the by-election caused by the elevation of Fred Peart to the House of Lords in 1976 until losing the seat in the 1979 general election.

Again there was a strong challenger from non-league in the form of Wimbledon ; however, as the club was seeking re-election for the first time in six years, it was Workington – bottom for a second successive year and making their fourth consecutive re-election application that made way.

The 1950s brought little league success, but were notable for some fine goalscoring by Jack Connor, whose 140 goals in 5 seasons are still a club record, including 13 hat-tricks ( three of which back-to-back – once against Crewe Alexandra and twice against Chester ), two instances of four goals in a match ( against Workington and Carlisle United ), and two of five goals in a match ( against Bradford Park Avenue and Tranmere Rovers ).

Shankly, a former player at Carlisle, later went on to manage local rivals Workington ( helping them finish above Carlisle for the first time ) before being appointed as manager of Liverpool in 1959 ; over the next 15 years he would guide the club to numerous trophy successes.

Today it forms part of the Sea to Sea Cycle Route which crosses from Whitehaven or Workington on the west coast to Sunderland or Tynemouth on the east coast-for three miles between Keswick and Threlkeld it follows the Keswick Railway Footpath along the disused track and bridges of the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway as laid out by Bouch.

The Cumbria iron ore field lies to the south of Workington, and produced extremely high grade phosphorus-free haematite.

Born in a small road named Kentons Lane in Windsor, Osgood was signed by Chelsea as a junior and made his debut as a 17 year-old in the League Cup, scoring both goals in a 2 – 0 win against Workington AFC on 16 December 1964.

Workington is linked by the A596 road to Maryport, to Whitehaven via A595 road, by the A66 road to Cockermouth, and the M6 motorway to Penrith and County Durham.

Workington North railway station opened on 30 November 2009 as a temporary means of crossing the river following the closure of road bridges.

* A66 road ( England ), a road connecting Middlesbrough and Penrith / Workington

Keswick is on the A66 road linking Workington and Penrith, as well as the A591 road, linking it to Windermere, Kendal and to Carlisle ( via the A595 road ).

Its location is in an east west direction on the main A596, Carlisle to Workington road and extends approximately 2 miles ( 3km ) in length.

It is located on the A596 road north of Workington, and is the southernmost town on the Solway Firth.

A new station, called Workington North is being constructed north of the Derwent to provide access to the town to those cut off by road.

It is served by Wigton railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, and the A596 road to Workington and ( via the A595 road ) to Carlisle.

In the aftermath of the November 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods Flimby saw its passenger numbers soar because of the closure of road transport between the north and south of the town of Workington.