Geography (345 pages found in this category)


Worsley dry docks

Earliest surviving example of a dry dock on Britain's canals.

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.

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.