Magazine founded by Lydia Becker and Jessie Boucherett in 1870, focusing on news of events affecting women's lives.
Women’s Tax Resistance League
Suffragette group active from 1909 until 1918, encouraging woman to protest against their disenfranchisement by refusing to pay taxes.
Woodplumpton witch
Redirected to Meg Shelton.
Workhouse
Establishment where the destitute in England and Wales received board and lodging in return for work.
Worsley dry docks
Earliest surviving example of a dry dock on Britain's canals.
Worsley Man
Head of a sacrificed Romano-British Celt found buried in Chat Moss.
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.
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