It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh.

Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley was born at Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, and was the only daughter of Sir William Arthington Worsley, 4th Bt., and his wife, Joyce Morgan Brunner, daughter of Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet and granddaughter of Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet, the founder of Brunner Mond, which later became ICI ( Imperial Chemical Industries ).

They rowed 360 miles to Fort Michilimackinac and three days later, Worsley returned with 92 men to take the Tigress and Scropion.

In January 1804 he married Jane Worsley but she died two years later giving birth to their first child.

The monument is a memorial to Charles Anderson-Pelham, the 2nd Baron Yarborough ( later first Earl of Yarborough and also Baron Worsley ), founder of the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes.

The Broadway Blueshirts were showing some power, and three nights later, Doug Harvey picked up three assists and Gump Worsley picked up a shutout as the Rangers blanked the Red Wings 4 – 0.

From Worsley to the rapidly-growing town of Manchester its construction cost £ 168, 000 (£ as of ), but its advantages over land and river transport meant that within a year of its opening in 1761, the price of coal in Manchester fell by about half.

It then goes under the M60 near the junction with the M61, near the Worsley Braided Interchange and Wardley Hall ( home of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford ) and enters Whittle Brook and Walkden as Manchester Road, passing the Linnyshaw Industrial Estate on the right.

Today, Worsley is under consideration to be made a World Heritage Site, including Worsley Delph, a scheduled monument.

In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, Worsley Urban District was created.

Parts were added to Eccles Borough and Irlam Urban District. Worsley wardIn 1955 Swinton and Pendlebury Borough gained a small part of Worsley Urban District, and under the Local Government Act 1972, in 1974 Worsley's Urban District status was abolished, becoming part of Salford Metropolitan District.

In August 1655, England was placed under military rule and Cheshire, Lancashire and North Staffordshire were governed by Charles Worsley.

For Clark then, the true purpose of Chiswick Villa was as a symbolic Royal Palace which awaited the return of the ' Kings over the water ' who were destined to rule by ‘ Divine Right ’, an interpretation supported by architectural historian Giles Worsley and others.

Brindley's reputation brought him to the attention of the 3rd Duke of Bridgewater who was looking for a way to improve the transport of coal from his coal mines at Worsley to Manchester.

Several attendees included members of the local Worsley Cricket Club who wanted to form a football club to occupy the empty winter evenings after the cricket season had finished.

The team was led by All-Tournament players Jessica Worsley ( who was named the tournament MVP ) and Maria Rodriguez.

* Charles Worsley, cricketer who played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire.

Statistician Harry Campion, who played a leading role in the development of official statistics after the Second World War, was born in Kearsley in May 1905 and raised in Worsley.

According to Shackleton's own account, his first choices for the journey were Worsley and the dependable Tom Crean, who " begged to go ".

; Miss Hester Worsley: As an American Puritan and an outsider to the British society in the play, Hester is in an ideal position to witness its faults and shortcomings more clearly than those who are part of it.

Charles Anderson Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough ( 12 April 1809 – 7 January 1862 ) was a British nobleman who succeeded to the Earldom of Yarborough in 1846.

Worsley was also an outstanding soccer player, who began his senior career with McMasterville in the Montreal League.

This club was named after John Worsley, who is an Old Brightonian, and notable for being an accomplished artist and German Prisoner of War camp escapee.

They included Sir Cheney Culpeper and Benjamin Worsley who were interested, among other matters, in alchemy, Worsley in 1646 was experimenting on saltpetre manufacture, and Charles Webster in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography argues that he was the " prime mover " of the Invisible College at this point: a network with aims and views close to those of the Hartlib Circle with which it overlapped.

The architectural historian Giles Worsley describes him as " the first English architect to grasp the full potential of the Greek Revival ", and David Watkin says he is the " finest " of the architects who revived the forms of Greek architecture.

Barbara Mary Keeley ( born 26 March 1952 ) is a British Labour Party politician who is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Worsley and Eccles South.

Joseph Paul Richard Worsley MBE ( born 14 June 1977 in London ) is a retired English rugby union player who played flanker for Wasps and England.

This was an astounding feat of navigation by Worsley, who used a sextant in a tiny boat that encountered waves and storms.

Paced by Gump Worsley, who had 6 shutouts and a 1. 98 goals against average and backstopped the team to the fewest goals allowed in the league, managed to keep first place thereafter.

In no time at all, every player on the ice was involved except Rangers ' net minder Gump Worsley, who decided to have none of the nonsense.

Beatrice Helen Worsley and Perham Stanley, two graduate students working at the Computation Center, were sent to Cambridge University to work with Maurice Wilkes who was in the process of completing the EDSAC.

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, built the Bridgewater Canal and was directly responsible for much of the economic growth of Worsley through the latter part of the 18th century.

Although much of the industry that dominated Worsley was in decline, in 1937 Sir Montague Maurice Burton opened a clothing factory along the East Lancashire Road.

He attended Worsley Bridge Primary School where the school won both the Bromley area and Kent cricket Cups.

The Brereton family added the Manor of Bedford ( a small area of land to the west of Worsley ) to the estate.

In a diary entry of 1773, Josiah Wedgwood wrote of the area " We next visited Worsley which has the appearance of a considerable Seaport Town.

Worsley Urban District gained of land from Barton-upon-Irwell Civil Parish in 1921, and in 1933 gained the area of Little Hulton Urban District.

In 1984 construction of the Worsley Alumina refinery began and the area experienced an unexpected revival.

Wheeler's Manchester: Its Political, Social and Commercial History, Ancient and Modern ( 1836 ) states that about one-fifth of the land around Worsley, Astley and Tyldesley was in tillage, lower on average than the surrounding areas.

Coal has been mined around Worsley from as long ago as 1376, originally in open-cast pits.

However, at the same time, the M62 was being extended north and east of Worsley, around the north of Manchester, and on to Yorkshire, to form part of the Trans-Pennine Motorway route.