In 1759 he was put in charge of the duke of Bridgwater's canal between his coal pits at Worsley and Manchester. |
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He was also postmaster at Worsley for 30 years and a sidesman at St Mark's Church for 35 years. |
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The 15-year-old from Worsley has been signed up for a major role in a comedy drama series about teenagers, called The A to Z of Everything. |
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Sir Marcus Worsley gave a tribute to the Queen Mother and members of the Malton and Norton branch of the Royal British Legion carried a standard. |
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Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village. |
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Te Namu Bay was the scene of the 1862 wreck of the ship the Lord Worsley, and was one of the most beautiful spots in the district. |
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Almost as soon as work began above ground, work also began on driving a tunnel northwards towards the sandstone face of Worsley Delph. |
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Now Lauren, from Worsley, and her partner, Ashley Easdale, are keeping a bedside vigil to watch his progress. |
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Howe faked the shot to Worsley's left, and Worsley went down on the ice to that side. |
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The AA warned of heavy traffic on the anti-clockwise M60 between Prestwich and the Worsley interchange as drivers approached Junction 12, where the M602 was closed. |
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The 55-year-old dad-of-two from Worsley has been told by the best doctors on Spain's bullfighting circuit that he should hang up his cape and sword. |
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Worsley Park got off to a flier against Bolton Old Links, winning the first four matches and Screeton added a fifth point for an impressive 5-2 victory. |
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Worsley is no longer as uncontrolled a force as he once was. |
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How no one in the Swinton Worsley bit of Salford can not have seen that craft, only me, is beyond belief. |
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Thereupon the Duke broke up his London establishment, and retired to his estate at Worsley where he devoted himself to the making of canals. |
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Today, Worsley is under consideration to be made a World Heritage Site, including Worsley Delph, a scheduled monument. |
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Worsley was, originally, the largest manor of the seven ancient manors of the Bridgewater Estates. |
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Worsley New Hall, designed by Edward Blore, was built in 1846 for Francis Egerton the First Earl of Ellesmere. |
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Coal has been mined around Worsley from as long ago as 1376, originally in bell pits. |
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His solution to these problems was to build a canal from Worsley to Salford, and an underground canal into the mines from Worsley Delph. |
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Worsley Delph, now a scheduled monument, was the entrance to the Duke's underground mines. |
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Worsley Brook was culverted, and a memorial fountain to the Duke was built from the bricks of the works' chimney. |
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Another housing estate was built during the 1970s to the north of Worsley Green. |
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In 1944, during World War II, a flying bomb landed on a house near Worsley Dam. |
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Although unused the building still exists, in wooded land to the west of the town, on the site of the former Worsley New Hall. |
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From the 11th century, Worsley was a township in the Eccles parish of the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancashire. |
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In 1892 a small part of the township of Worsley was included in the Borough of Eccles. |
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In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, Worsley Urban District was created. |
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In 1907 two small detached parts of Worsley civil parish, then inside Swinton civil parish, were added to Swinton civil parish. |
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The ward elect three councillors to Salford City Council via its Worsley ward. |
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Worsley now has little industry, and is in the main a tourist destination and commuter town. |
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John Gilbert had the innovative idea to use water pumped out of his coal mines to fill a canal from the Duke's Worsley mines to Manchester. |
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Worsley Village was in 1969 designated as a conservation area by the former Lancashire County Council. |
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One of the first Sunday schools to be established in England may have been at Worsley. |
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Ellenbrook Chapel, the first church in Worsley was built in 1209 by the Worsley family. |
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The church tower is now home to the mechanism for the Bridgewater Clock from the Bridgewater workshops at Worsley Green. |
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Many gravestones in the churchyard were cut from rock sourced at Worsley Delph. |
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Worsley Golf Club was founded in 1894 on part of the Earl of Ellesmere's estate at Broadoak Park. |
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Home Office policing in Worsley is provided by the Greater Manchester Police. |
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Notable people from Worsley include the actress Helen Cherry, and television commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. |
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Worsley Old Hall is now a public house and restaurant in the Brunning and Price chain, part of the Restaurant Group. |
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It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester. |
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It was opened in 1761 from Worsley to Manchester, and later extended from Manchester to Runcorn, and then from Worsley to Leigh. |
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Access to the canal brought about a rapid development in coal mining on the Manchester Coalfield west of Worsley. |
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Chaddock pits in the east of Tyldesley were connected to an underground level from Worsley. |
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As the canal passes through Worsley, iron oxide from the mines has, for many years, stained the water bright orange. |
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In 1923 Bridgewater Estates Ltd was formed to acquire the Ellesmere family estate in Worsley. |
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The Bridgewater Canal, Britain's first wholly artificial waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at Worsley to central Manchester. |
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Much of the Worsley Braided Interchange was built on undeveloped mossland where deep peat deposits had been covered with waste. |
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Worsley Braided Interchange serves Junctions 14 and 15 and Junctions 1 to 3 of the M61 which terminates to Preston. |
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They have two children, both born in Salford and live in Worsley, Greater Manchester, close to where the player grew up. |
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The large Tudor mansion was bequeathed in 1690 to Sir Robert Worsley, 3rd Baronet, who began planning a suitable replacement. |
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The house was greatly extended in the 1770s by his great nephew Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet of Appuldurcombe. |
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The canal was built for him by James Brindley to service his coal mines at Worsley, in Lancashire. |
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In cross-examination, Mr Worsley put it to Charlton that she had deliberately misled the police in the days following the killing. |
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In 2015, the Royal Horticultural Society announced plans for a restoration of the garden at Worsley New Hall, to open in 2019 under the name RHS Garden Bridgewater. |
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Parts of Worsley are currently being considered as World Heritage Sites. |
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After the election, Keeley became the MP for Worsley and Eccles South. |
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Until the United Kingdom general election 2010, Worsley was represented in the House of Commons by Barbara Keeley, Labour Party member for the Worsley constituency. |
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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. |
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Cromwell's troops were commanded by Charles Worsley, later one of his Major Generals and one of his most trusted advisors, to whom he entrusted the mace. |
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He devised a navigation system for Worsley which was not carried out. |
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The difficulties encountered in its execution were still more formidable than those of the Worsley canal, involving carrying it across Sale Moor Moss. |
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Raw cotton, imported through the port of Liverpool from the West Indies and southern states of America, and coal from Worsley were carried on the canal. |
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Wales game at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wasps supplied the back row of the scrum, James Haskell, Joe Worsley and Tom Rees all made an appearance. |
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A key opposition figure in this had been Robert Haldane Bradshaw, one of the trustees of the Marquess of Stafford's Worsley estate, which included the Bridgewater Canal. |
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Charles Worsley, who sat for the city for only a year, was later appointed Major General for Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire during the Rule of the Major Generals. |
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They stayed at Worsley Hall, with a view of the canal, and were given a trip between Patricroft railway station and Worsley Hall, on state barges. |
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Brindley's planned route began at Worsley and passed southeast through Eccles, before turning south to cross the River Irwell on the Barton Aqueduct. |
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Other soughs were dug, including one in 1729 to drain the Worsley mines and another from Standish Colliery to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Crooke. |
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