page_title: Worsley
section_title: Modern history
hierarchical_section_title: Worsley / History / Modern history
caption_attribution_description: English: The M60 motorway running through Worsley. The Courthouse is visible just beyond the bridge.
context_page_description: Worsley is a town in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, which in 2014 had a population of 10,090. It lies along Worsley Brook, 5.75 miles west of Manchester. The M60 motorway bisects the area.
  Historically part of Lancashire, there is evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon activity, including two Roman roads. 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. Later expansion came after the First and Second World Wars, when large urban estates were built.
  Worsley Delph is a scheduled monument and a significant part of the town's historic centre is now a conservation area.
context_section_description: Under the Housing Act 1919, large overspill estates were built by the council for veterans of the First World War, but a larger change to the area came after the end of the Second World War, when the then pre 1974 City of Salford was forced to rehouse many of its inhabitants. With little land left, 4,518 new houses were built in the urban district by the Worsley Project. 18,000 people were rehoused under the scheme, which included new facilities, shops and schools.  Another housing estate was built during the 1970s to the north of Worsley Green.
  In 1944, during the Second World War, a flying bomb landed on a house near Worsley Dam.  An Anti Aircraft Operations Room (AAOR) was built in the 1950s. Although unused the building still exists, in wooded land to the west of the town, on the site of the former Worsley New Hall.
caption: The M60 motorway bisects Worsley
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