WORMINGTON. 875 WORSLEY. Cotswold bills. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. oi Gloucester and Bristol, val. 150. The church is dedi- cated to the Holy Trinity or to St. Catherine. S. G. Gist, Esq., of Wonnington Grange, is lord of the manor. WORHINGTON, an ancient par. in the district of Kelso, co. Roxburgh, Scotland, now united with Linton. WORMINGTON GRANGE, a hmlt. in the par. of Didbrook, co. Gloucester, 1 mile S.E. of Wonnington, and 4 miles N. of Winchcorab. WORMINSTER, a tythg. in the city of Wells, co. Somerset, 2 miles S. of Wells. WORMLEIGHTON, a par. in the bund, of Kington, co. Warwick, 5 miles S.E. of Southam, and 3 N.E. of Fenny Compton railway station. The village is situ- ated near the reservoir of the Oxford canal, and gives title of baron to the Dukes of Marlborough. At the time of the Domesday survey it formed part of the possessions of the Earl of Mellent, and in the reign of Henry VIII. came to the Spencer family, with whom it still remains, the present Earl Spencer being lord of the manor and chief landowner. The land is rich pasture and meadow, with the exception of a few acres. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Worcester, val. 80. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a school with a small endowment. WORJILEY, a par. in the hund. of Hertford, co. Herts, 2 miles N.E. of Cheshunt, 2 S.W. of Hoddes- den, and 6 from Hertford. The parish is traversed by the Cambridge section of the Great Eastern rail way and by the New River, and is bounded on the E. by the river Lea. In the Saxon times it was given by King Harold to Waltham Abbey, and having reverted to the crown at the Dissolution, was given by Henry VIII. to the North family, from whom it came to the Cromwells of Cheshunt. In the village is Wormley Bury, the resi- dence of Earl Brownlow. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of London, val. 250. The church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, contains a painting of the Lord's Supper, by Palma, effigies in alabaster of W. Puerveye and lady, (everal altar-tombs of former rectors, and three brasses, the earliest bearing date 1479. WORMONDISCOMBE, a lib. in the par. of Wat- lington, co. Oxford, 2 miles from Watlington. WORM'S HEAD, a dangerous promontory or head- land on the S. side of Rhosilly Bay, co. Glamorgan. It is united to the mainland by a narrow strip of rock nbout three-fourths of a mile long, called Worm's Sound, which is submerged during high tide. WORMSHILL, a par. in the hund. of Eyhprne, lathe of Aylesford, co. Kent, 5 miles S.W. of Sittingbourne, 9 from Maidstone, and 3 N.E. of Ilollingbourn. The village is situated on a plateau 530 feet above the sea, and intersected with valleys. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Canterbury, val. 260, in the patron, of Christ Hospital, London. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. The register dates from 1700. The charities produce about 6 per annum. There is a school with a small endowment. WORMSLEY, a par. in the hund. of Grimsworth, co. Hereford, 3} miles S.E. of Weobly, 8 N.W. of Hereford, and 5 N.W. of Horeton railway station. The village is situated on the road from Weobly to Hereford, and commands a view of the If alvorn and Glee hills. In the reign of John, Gilbert Talbot founded the priory of St. Leonard in this parish for canons of the order of St. Augustine. Tho living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Hereford, val. 75. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Sir W. R. Boughton, Bart., is lord of the manor. NVnKMWOOD SCRUBS, or WORMHOLT, a com- mon in the Holborn div. of Ossulstone hund, co. Mid- dlesex, 5 miles N.W. of St. Paul's, London. It is situated on the Paddington canal, at the place where the Great Western and West London railways cross. WUIU'LESDON, a par. in the first div. of Woking hund., co. Surrey, 3 miles N.W. of Guildford. It is situated on the Wye and Arun navigation, and includes the tythg. of Burgham and the ecclesiastical district and village of Wyke, the latter surrounded by the parish of Ash. In 1829 the floor of a Roman villa, 62 feet long VOL. 111. by 23 wide, and divided into five compartments, floored with tesselated pavement of iron-stone, was discovered on Broad-Street Common. Tho two manors of Worples- don and Burgham belong to Earl Onslow. Fuller's earth is found. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Winchester, val. 710, in the patron, of Eton College. The parish church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains an old font and an E. window embellished with ancient stained glass. There is also a district church at Wyke, erected in 1858, the living of which is a perpet. cur., val. 130. There are National schools, built by sub- scription in 1861, and schools in connection with the district church of Wyke. The charities produce about 18 per annum. WORRA LL, a div. in the tnshp. of Bradfield and par. of EcclesfK-ld, West Riding co. York, 6 miles N.W. of Sheffield. WORSALL, HIGH, a chplry. in the par. of North- allerton, wap. of Allertonshire, North Riding co. York, 4 miles S.W. of Yarm, and 10 N.E. of Northallerton. WORSALL, LOW, a tnshp. in tho par. of Kirk- leavington, North Riding co. York, 3 miles S.W. of Yarm. It adjoins the chapelry of High AVorsall. WORSBltOUGH, a tnshp. in the par. of Darficld, wap. of Staincross, West Riding co. York, 3 miles S.E. of Barnsley, and 11 N. of Sheffield. The village is traversed by tho South Yorkshire railway and the Dearne and Dove branch canal, which passes to Wors- brough Bridge, affording facilities of conveyance for the produce of the extensive collieries, stone quarries, and iron works in the neighbourhood. The tnshp. contains Worsbrough Common and Dale, and eight other limits. In Worsbrough Dale are extensive mines of the ten- foot coal in full operation, also gunpowder, paper, and corn mills, chemical works, and flint-glass works. There are two churches, dedicated respectively to St. Mary and St. Thomas ; tho former, a chapel-of-ease to Ditr- field, was, with tho exception of the tower and spire, rebuilt in 1839 at a cost of 1,200 ; the latter was erected in 1859 at a cost of 3,500. There are chapels for the Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Inde- pendents, and three day schools for boys and girls par- tially endowed, and three church Sunday-schools. The principal seats are Darley Hall, Ousclthwaito, Round Green, and Worsbrough Hall, in which last are pre- served a cabinet once belonging to Charles I., the sheets in which he slept the night before his execution, and the block on which tho Earl of Stafford was executed. John Jeffrocks, Esq., is lord of the manor of Darley, and Vernou Wentworth, Esq., of Stainborough Hall, of
- he manor of Worsbrough.
WORSLEY, a tnshp. and vil. in tho par. of Eccles, ,und. of Salford, co. Lancaster, 6 miles S. of Bolton, and 7 N.W. of Manchester, forming part of the borough of South Lancashire. It is a station on the Manchester and Wigan branch of the London and North- Western railway, and has water communication by means of tho Bridgwatcr canal with all parts of the kingdom. Branch- ing from the trunk canal are a series of underground canals and tunnels, some 180 feet below the surface, cut 3y Brindley, for tho Duke of Buckingham, at a cost of 169,000, and communicating with tho extensive col- ieries. This tnshp. includes the hmlts. of Newtown, . Little Houghton, Boothstown, and Ellenborough Chapel. The population in 1861 was 11,875, many being employed in the cotton mills. The soil is clayey, and ,he subsoil mostly moss. The manor at tho time of tho Conquest belonged to Elias de Workedesley, and in the L7th century came to tho Dukes of Bridgwater, to whom t still belongs, though the greater part of tho land and ,he collieries are now the property of the Earl of Elles- mere, whoso seat is Worsley Hall, built in 1800 by Blore in the Elizabethan style, and visited by the Queen in October, 1851. From the windows a view is obtained over seven counties, and in the interior are oak panel- ing, sculpture, and painting, including Landseer's "Re-
- urn from Hawking." Adjoining the park are the
remains of tho old timbered seat of the Duke of Bridg- water, and Wardley Hall, said to have been built in tho 6 f
