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Encyclopedia Britannica



WORKINGTON

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 831 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WORKINGTON , a municipal borough, seaport and market town in the
Cockermouth
  parliamentary division of Cumberland, England, 34 M. S.W. of
Carlisle
 , served by the
Cockermouth
 , Keswick & Penrith, the London & North-Western and the Cleator & Workington Junction railways. Pop. (19o1) 26,143. It lies on the S. bank of the river Derwent, at its outflow into the Irish Sea. The harbour is safe, being protected by a stony
beach
  and by a breakwater. The
Lonsdale
  dock is 42 acres in extent. The port was made subordinate to that of
Maryport
  in 1892. There are large collieries in the neighbourhood of the town, the workings in some cases extending beneath the sea, and blast-furnaces, engineering works, cycle and motor works, ship-building yards and
paper
  mills. The borough is under a mayor, 7 aldermen and 21 councillors. Area, 2245 acres. Neat-the town is Workington
Hall
 , a castellated structure retaining some of the ancient rooms, including that in which Mary, queen of Scots; is said to have slept when she escaped to England after the battle of Langside in May 1568.


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