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	GENUKI: Barton on Irwell, Lancashire genealogy
		The village stands on the river Irwell, adjacent to the Manchester and Liverpool railway, in the vicinity of Patricroft station, 5 miles W of Manchester.
		In 1835 Barton on Irwell was a township in the parish of Eccles.
		For probate purposes prior to 1858, Barton on Irwell was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LAN/BartononIrwell (628 words)

	River Irwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The River Irwell is a river in the counties of Lancashire and Greater Manchester in England that flows through (and divides) the centres of Manchester and Salford, before joining the River Mersey, and one of the rivers that drove the Industrial Revolution.
		Turning west it is joined by the River Croal near Farnworth and runs south east where it meanders around the centre of Manchester, joining the rivers Irk and Medlock.
		In the late 17th century the Warrington businessman Thomas Patten had made the River Mersey navigable as far as Warrington and suggested that there would be significant commercial value in extending this along the Irwell as far as Manchester.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Irwell (520 words)

	River Irwell
		The river is obstructed by willow tree branches in the water.
		River narrows and produces a surf wave and a couple of holes.
		The river is now a grade II bimble to the Burrs Weir.
	www.ukriversguidebook.co.uk /irwell.htm (1255 words)

	Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its junction on the River Irwell was also very close to the entrance of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal which meant its traffic could now reach the centre of Manchester without having to use the Mersey and Irwell Navigation.
		Almost opposite, on the east bank of the river, is the entrance to the former Manchester and Salford Junction Canal.
		The M62 is reached within ½ a mile and past it the canal runs between the River Irwell to the north and apparent open land to the south.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/manchesterboltbury.htm (3873 words)

	RIVERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The source areas of rivers are usually steep so that the stream flows quickly and has lots of energy to wear down the land (photograph).
		The river Irwell at the Crescent in Salford is an example of a meander.
		Sometimes the river is carrying so much sediment that when it reaches the sea it deposits it all at the outlet to form new land.
	website.lineone.net /~dazrussell/RIVERS1A.html (350 words)

	History by Waterway from River Lug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The River Irwell by J Corbett, Published by E J Morten 1974 Believed to be a reprint of a 1907 book.
		The Dark River by Cyril Bracegirdle, Published by Sherratt & Hughes - About the river Irwell in and around Manchester, and the tales and characters associated with it over the years.
		Description: This broad canal ran from the River Irwell in Manchester 11 miles, 17 locks, to Bolton with a 4.75 mile level branch to Bury.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /jim.shead/History17.html (2680 words)

	Mr Snuffle's Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		Improvements to rivers were made although the aim of these was often to harness the waterpower, or for fishing, rather than for navigation purposes.
		As experience of river engineering increased it was found that it was often better to build quite long artificial cuts rather than try to make the original course of the river into a navigation channel.
		This stone structure with a 63 foot wide arch carried the canal 38 feet above the river, opened in 1761, it captured the popular imagination and prompted the publication of admiring verses on this wonder of the age.
	pub10.bravenet.com /forum/803738940/fetch/538087 (810 words)

	River Irwell: Waterscape.com
		Set in the heart of industrial Lancashire, the River Irwell runs for a brief 1.5 miles from the junction with the Manchester Ship Canal to Hunts Bank, a stone's throw away from the bright lights of the centre of Manchester.
		The section of the River Irwell in the heart of Manchester, is one of the regional 19 River Valley Initiatives that form part of the government-sponsored Mersey Basin Campaign.
		The general aim of the Campaign is to improve water quality, regenerate the watersides and to educate and raise awareness of the local waterways in the region.
	www.waterscape.com /River_Irwell (170 words)

	Manchester CC - Rivers around Manchester
		The Irwell has undergone some extensive developments in recent years to benefit canoeing and is both interesting to paddle and conveniently local.
		At low water the whole river is a bit of a scrape but the Irwell rises very quickly after rain, when the section from Ramsbottom to the Burrs site can be very enjoyable.
		The route down is usually obvious and as the river has undergone quite a clean up the water quality is considerably better than you might expect with Kingfishers and other wildlife making a steady comeback.
	www.manchestercanoeclub.org.uk /rivers.html (1507 words)

	River Irwell Navigation
		The River Irwell through Manchester formed part of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation from 1736 until the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894.
		Boats originally accessed the River Irwell by means of the short Hulme Locks Branch.
		Salford Quays is to the left at the far end of the dock, the River Irwell to the right.
	www.penninewaterways.co.uk /manchester/m70.htm (270 words)

	Bridgewater canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company were only too aware that the new waterway would become a direct rival to their monopolising route.
		The river navigation had big ideas of a great ship canal into Manchester, it also attempted to strike a deal with the new Manchester and Leeds Railway but one way or another the Bridgewater Canal and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway forced the river navigation back into its original agreement.
		The share had always been one third canal, one third river and one third railway but the railway successfully argued that this should be changed to 50/50 railway/waterway.
	www.btinternet.com /~canals/canals/bridgewatercanalroot.htm (4870 words)

	Manchester City Council: Planning: Castlefield Conservation Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On 26 June 1985 the area was extended by the addition of land bounded by Ellesmere Street, Hulme Hall Road and the River Irwell.
		The River Irwell was made navigable in the 1720s, allowing access to Liverpool via the River Mersey, and in 1734 Edward Byrom financed the first quay on the Irwell for loading and unloading goods.
		Liverpool Road was an important highway, sloping gently down to the River Irwell, whilst the area occupied by the Roman road, connecting the fort with the north, had been re-developed for other uses.
	www.manchester.gov.uk /planning/heritage/conservation/castlefield.htm (2647 words)

	Irwell Sculpture Trail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Irwell Sculpture Trail is the largest public art scheme in the United Kingdom commissioning regional, national and international artists.
		Made of galvanised mild steel the sculpture is inspired by the nearby Bury Bolton canal having bulrush motifs, a canal barge hidden in the bottom of the bulrushes and illumination to transform the sculpture at night.
		The ethos of this public art commission is to use art as a tool to enable the public to interpret their landscape and have the confidence to explore their environment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irwell_Sculpture_Trail (2078 words)

	River Mersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The argument against "border river" as an original name, is that the river would have obtained its name after it became a border.
		The author who wrote the river name for the first time, must have noticed the strong similarity with border, as the river had become a border at that moment.
		The Mersey is formed from three tributaries: the River Etherow, the River Goyt and the River Tame.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/River_Mersey (777 words)

	The Duke's Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His first plan was to construct a waterway from his Worsley mines to Barton, thereby getting access to the River Irwell and thence to Manchester.
		However, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company refused to cooperate and the Duke started considering a cross-country waterway from his colliery to Salford, near Manchester.
		One year later, in March 1759, the Duke successfully obtained an Act of Parliament that authorized the work to begin and in the summer of that year he employed James Brindley as the "Engineer" for the canal.
	pages.prodigy.net /brinnand/ramblings/hist3dc.htm (705 words)

	River Irwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The River Irwell is a river in Lancashire in England that flows through central Manchester before joining the River Mersey, and one of the rivers that drove the Industrial Revolution.
		Rising on the moors south of Bacup it flows south through Ramsbottom and Bury before merging with the River Roch near Radcliffe.
		In the late 17th century the Warrington businessman Thomas Patten had made the River Mersey navigable as far as Warrington and suggested that there would be significant
	river-irwell.kiwiki.homeip.net (622 words)

	New page builders are probably wondering how you see
		At the bottom of the plot was a river wall about 3 feet high on the garden side but with a 15 feet straight drop into the River Irwell.
		I screamed blue murder and a workman pulled me from the river but to this day one of my boots is probably stuck in the soft sand of the river bed.
		The river wall on the right of this picture is the wall where I fell into the Irewell.
	www.ex-lancs.com /Bombshell.htm (5694 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
		Starting from the south-west corner of Salford's boundary with Manchester at Cornbrook, the border follows the River Irwell just to the north of Manchester city centre, curving round with the river at Victoria station before the line leaves the river to encompass Broughton.
		A small village on the north bank of the River Irwell was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of 923.
		When the Irwell and Mersey Navigation was rebuilt as the Manchester Ship Canal in the 1880s, the aqueduct was replaced by a swing bridge that remains one of the wonders of inland waterways.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A12736424 (2746 words)

	RIBA: Result: River Irwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The competition was administered by the RIBA on behalf of Urban Splash and Salford City Council, with the support of English Partnerships and the North West Development Agency.
		Weston Williamson were chosen by the judges, which included Walter Menteth, RIBA Assessor, Tom Bloxham MBE, chairman Urban Splash and Councillor John Merry, leader, Salford City Council, because the proposal has the ability to transform what is a difficult site into a very special place in the city.
		The proposals include a beach on the riverside, large private landscaped garden areas overlooking the river for residents.
	www.riba.org /go/RIBA/Also/Competitions_3835.html (530 words)

	Action Irwell
		Action Irwell was established in January 2004 and focuses on an area known as the âIrwell corridorâ, encompassing the River Irwell as it flows through Salford and Manchester city centre to become the Manchester Ship Canal.
		Until the 1960s the Irwell corridor was heavily industrialised, with the docks at the Manchester end of the Ship Canal among the busiest in the UK, a legacy that left the waters of the Irwell and the canal severely polluted and virtually lifeless.
		More recently, the banks of the River Irwell have rapidly become the site of a series of high profile developments such as the five star Lowry hotel, The Edge apartments and the Spinningfields office complex.
	www.merseybasin.org.uk /page.asp?id=2837 (297 words)

	Environment Agency - Fish kill costs company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pennine Magistrates’ Court was told that the Environment Agency received reports from the public that a substance could be seen on Langwood Brook and the River Irwell at Haslingden and that fish were in distress in the River Irwell.
		An Environment Agency officer visited the scene and found a number of dead fish in the river at Ewood Bridge, hundreds of dead fish where the River Irwell meets the River Odgen at Irwell Bridge and dead worms in the riverbed where the River Irwell meets with Langwood Brook.
		Under cautioned interview Anthony Street, managing director of Lectros, accepted that there were no measures in place to prevent liquids entering the drainage system and they were unaware of where the drains on site connected to, acknowledging this to be a weak point.
	www.environment-agency.gov.uk /news/1383695?lang=_e®ion=Northwest (401 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History : The Industrial Revolution : The Development of Canals in Britain : James Brindley
		However, a major factor limiting the supply of coal was the high cost of its transport from the mines.
		River transport was far easier than road transport because roads were often no more than muddy tracks.
		The problem was that rivers did not always flow either in the direction or at the depth needed for efficient transport.
	www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/IR/020.html (526 words)

	Egerton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Egerton subsequently devised a way to transport coal by water to prospering Manchester, an alternative to laboring across land or the unpredictable Irwell River, both of which were inefficient and expensive modes of transportation.
		Both John Gilbert and James Brindley suggested the construction of an artificial waterway to Manchester that would be separate from the Irwell River.
		He concluded that in order for the canal to become part of a country-wide network, it would have to cross the Irwell River.
	dragon.zoo.utoronto.ca /~inx410/egerton.htm (633 words)

	The Maggotdrowner's Forum - River Irwell at Bury
		Posted - 22 June 2005 : 10:57:23 PM I fished a Bury Anglers controlled stretch of the Irwell this evening.
		That was the biggest trout I've had from the Irwell before.
		The Mersey and the Irwell were, until not long ago, the disgrace of the Northwest.
	www.maggotdrowning.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25986 (588 words)

	River Irwell Sculpture Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Irwell Sculpture Trail follows a well-established 30 mile footpath stretching from Salford Quays through Bury and up to the River Irwell's Pennine source north of Bacup in Lancashire.
		The Trail is managed at policy level by the Irwell Sculpture Trail Partnership Committee comprising elected members and at a strategic level by a Joint Officer Working Group of arts and planning officers.
		The aims are to showcase the best recent fine art graduates in the region and to extend the range of artworks along the Irwell Sculpture Trail, in order to enhance public awareness and understanding of the environment.
	www.thewaterwaystrust.co.uk /artsplan/7.4.shtml (902 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| Lancashire \| Scent made from 'dirtiest' river
		A perfume is being made with water from what was once said to be the dirtiest river in the UK.
		L'eau de Marmalade will be made using water from the River Irwell, which runs from the moors above Bacup, Lancashire, to inner-city Manchester and Salford.
		The river helped to power the industrial revolution, but its past led it to be named one of the dirtiest in the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/5289140.stm (275 words)

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