The completion in 1761 of the Bridgewater Canal allowed Worsley to expand from a small village of cottage industries to an important town based upon cotton manufacture, iron-working, brick-making and extensive coal mining.
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21 Facts About Worsley
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Worsley Delph is a scheduled monument and a significant part of the town's historic centre is a conservation area.
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Thinly populated by craftsmen and serfs, Worsley grew as a settlement adjoining an ancient corn mill, close to the location of the present-day Worsley Road Bridge.
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Worsley was, originally, the largest manor of the seven ancient manors of the Bridgewater Estates.
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Worsley's illegitimate son, Thomas Egerton, was a prominent lawyer who served as Master of the Rolls from 1594 to 1603, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1596 to 1617 and as Lord High Chancellor of England.
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Worsley was succeeded by the second and third Earls of Bridgewater.
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Worsley devised a navigation system for Worsley which was not carried out.
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Worsley is recorded as saying that he found Worsley to be "a God-forsaken place, full of drunken, rude people with deplorable morals".
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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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Worsley was originally in Eccles ecclesiastical parish, and in Barton-upon-Irwell Poor Law Union.
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Until the 2010 general election, Worsley was represented in the House of Commons by Barbara Keeley, Labour Party member for the Worsley constituency.
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Worsley'sltered at the foot of a middle coal measure running approximately northwest and southeast across the area, the village lies along the course of Worsley Brook, which cuts through the ridge.
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Worsley's climate is generally temperate, like the rest of Greater Manchester.
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Worsley ward has the lowest levels of unemployment in Salford, in April 2006 0.
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Worsley now has little industry, and is in the main a tourist destination and commuter town.
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Worsley Old Hall is a public house and restaurant in the Brunning and Price chain, part of the Restaurant Group.
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Worsley Village was in 1969 designated as a conservation area by the former Lancashire County Council.
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Much of the area around the canal and Worsley Delph was restored and landscaped between 1966 and 1967 by the Worsley Civic Trust and the local council, ready for a visit by Elizabeth II on 17 May 1968.
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Parts of Worsley are currently being considered as World Heritage Sites.
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Notable people from Worsley include the actress Helen Cherry, and television commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme.
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