page_title: Worsley
section_title: Governance
hierarchical_section_title: Worsley / Governance
caption_attribution_description: Coat of arms of the former Worsley Urban District Council. The armoural description is as follows: ARMS: Argent a Lion rampant Gules on a Chief of the last a Fountain between two Lozenges of the field on each a Pheon Sable. CREST: Out of a Coronet composed of eight Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper set upon a Rim Or a demi Lion Sable gorged with a Wreath of Oak also proper and holding between the paws a Cross patonce Argent. Motto: 'NON NOBIS SOLUM' - Not for ourselves alone.. Granted by the College of Arms on 14 February 1956.
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: From the 11th century, Worsley was a township in the Eccles parish of the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancashire.  Worsley was originally in Eccles ecclesiastical parish, and also in Barton-upon-Irwell Poor Law Union. The Swinton area of the township was in 1867 included in the Swinton Local Board of Health, which from 1869 became the Swinton and Pendlebury Local Board of Health. In 1892 a small part of the township of Worsley was included in the Borough of Eccles. In 1894, under the Local Government Act 1894, Worsley Urban District was created. A part of the township then within the area of the Swinton and Pendlebury Local Board of Health was formed into Swinton township, becoming part of Swinton and Pendlebury Urban District. In 1907 two small detached parts of Worsley civil parish, then inside Swinton civil parish, were added to Swinton civil parish. A town hall was opened on 22 June 1911.  Worsley Urban District gained 21 acres (85,000 m²) of land from Barton-upon-Irwell Civil Parish in 1921, and in 1933 gained the area of Little Hulton Urban District. Parts were added to Eccles Borough and Irlam Urban District.
  In 1955 Swinton and Pendlebury Borough gained a small part of Worsley Urban District, and under the Local Government Act 1972, in 1974 Worsley's Urban District status was abolished, becoming part of Salford Metropolitan District.
  Following its 2006 review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, the Boundary Commission for England recommended the creation of a modified Worsley constituency, incorporating a part of Eccles. The new constituency is called Worsley and Eccles South.  Until the 2010 general election, Worsley was represented in the House of Commons by Barbara Keeley, Labour Party member for the Worsley constituency. After the election, Keeley became the MP for Worsley and Eccles South.
  The ward elect three councillors to Salford City Council via its Worsley ward. The current councillors are: Graham Compton, Chris Clarkson, and Karen Garrido, all from the Conservative Party.
caption: The coat of arms of the former Worsley Urban District Council
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