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Worsley Navigable Levels

Extensive network of underground canals that drained the Duke of Bridgewater's coal pits emerge into the open at the Delph in Worsley, Greater Manchester.

Worsley New Hall

Worsley's third manor house, New Hall was built in 1846 to designs by Edward Blore for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.

Worthington Hall, Wigan

Worthington Hall is an Elizabethan farm house on Chorley Lane in Wigan, Manchester, England. An inscription on a lintel in the gabled porch dates the building to 1577.

Wulver

Fairy being, part of the folklore of the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland, a type of werewolf, half man, half wolf.

Wythenshawe Hall

16th-century medieval timber-framed historic house and former manor house in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England.

Yale (mythical creature)

Heraldic beast whose meaning is "proud defence". Although it has never been identified with a living or extinct creature, it may be based on descriptions of Indian water buffalos.

Yard with Lunatics

Small oil-on-tinplate painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, produced between 1793 and 1794.

Yew Tree Colliery

Former coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1845 in Tyldesley, which was then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

Yorkshire witch

Redirected to Mary Bateman.

You Are Old, Father William

Poem by Lewis Carroll that first appeared in his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).