Qualla: Worsley https://qualla.com/worsley en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Worsley https://qualla.com/worsley Worsley: Introduction https://qualla.com/worsley/ The water at Worsley Delph is bright orange. Not faintly tinted - genuinely orange, like rust dissolved in tea, and it has been that colour for a very long time. The colour is iron oxide leaching out of abandoned coal mines that run for miles beneath the village. A £2.5 million scheme tried to clean it up in 2004. It did not work. The mines are still there underground, and the canal that drained them carries that same metallic-orange water out into the Bridgewater Canal, which is the reason there is a Worsley at all.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/worsley-wp/gcw2-worsley-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Worsley: The Duke's Idea https://qualla.com/worsley/ Francis Egerton, third Duke of Bridgewater, inherited Worsley in the mid-18th century along with extensive coal seams beneath it. The seams slanted downward and flooded persistently. Getting the coal out was hard; getting it to market in Salford and Manchester was harder still, b...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/worsley-wp/gcw2-worsley-the-dukes-idea.mp3 0:06 2 full Worsley: The Bridgewater Canal https://qualla.com/worsley/ The Bridgewater Canal opened in 1761. A single horse could pull a thirty-ton barge - more than ten times what the same horse could move on roads. The stone aqueduct at Barton-upon-Irwell carried the canal over the River Irwell, considered at the time a major engineering achieveme...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/worsley-wp/gcw2-worsley-the-bridgewater-canal.mp3 0:06 3 full Worsley: Halls and Royalty https://qualla.com/worsley/ The Bridgewater estate also produced houses. Worsley Old Hall, parts of which date back over nine hundred years, was the original manor seat - now a Grade II listed pub and restaurant in the Brunning and Price chain. Worsley New Hall, a much grander pile designed by Edward Blore,...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/2/worsley-wp/gcw2-worsley-halls-and-royalty.mp3 0:06 4 full Worsley: Modern Worsley https://qualla.com/worsley/ Today Worsley is a commuter village of about ten thousand people, the M60 and M62 motorways cutting through its margins, with two large hotels and a quiet civic identity. The Bridgewater Clock in the tower of St Mark's Church strikes thirteen times at one in the afternoon - a tra...

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