Coal mining company on the Lancashire Coalfield with headquarters in Walkden near Manchester.
The nickname given to Manchester, the world’s first industrial city, a metropolis centred on cotton trading.
Former half-timbered manor house on the banks of the River Irwell in Manchester, demolished in about 1840.
Pit sunk in about 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal.
Large woodland area and country park in Greater Manchester, what remains of an ancient woodland.
Museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. One of five branches of the Imperial War Museum, it explores the impact of modern conflicts on people and society.
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.
Ellesmere Colliery in Walkden, on the Lancashire Coalfield, was sunk in 1865 by the Bridgewater Trustees. Production ended in 1923.
Worsley’s third manor house, New Hall was built in 1846 to designs by Edward Blore for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
The Royal Horticultural Society’s first new garden since 2003, opened in 2021 in Worsley, in the City of Salford.
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