Wortley
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- Wortley, South YorkshireWortley, South YorkshireWortley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 579.Wortley grew up as a settlement where the Sheffield to Halifax road crossed the Cheshire to Rotherham route...
- Wortley railway stationWortley railway stationWortley railway station was a railway station on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway lying between Deepcar and Penistone. It was built to serve the village of Wortley, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England...
- Wortley HallWortley HallWortley Hall is a stately home in the small South Yorkshire village of Wortley, located west of Barnsley. For more than five decades the hall has been chiefly associated with the British Labour movement...
- Wortley Rural DistrictWortley Rural DistrictWortley was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974, situated to the north-west of the county borough of Sheffield....
- Wortley railway station
- Wortley, West YorkshireWortley, West YorkshireWortley is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It begins one mile to the west of the city centre.In the 1086 Domesday Book it is mentioned as Wirtlei, also Wirtleie and Wrleia. Later it was known as Wirkelay until about 1700...
- district of Leeds
People
- Alexander WortleyAlexander WortleyAlexander Stuart Wortley , was an English eccentric.A Royal Navy veteran, he serverd in the Battle of Jutland aboard HMS Agincourt as runner to Captain Thynne. Alexander Wortley died aged 80 having lived his last 20 years in a green painted box in a garden in Rowley Cottage, Langley Park,...
(b. 1899-1980), English naval veteran eccentric - Dana WortleyDana Wortley-External links:*...
(b. 1959), Australian politician - Russell WortleyRussell WortleyRussell Paul Wortley, Australian politician, has served as a Labor MLC in the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2006 state election. He will be up for re-election at the 2014 state election....
, Australian politician - Sir Edward Wortley MontaguSir Edward Wortley MontaguSir Edward Wortley Montagu was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu....
(1678-1761), British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire - Edward Wortley MontaguEdward Wortley MontaguEdward Wortley Montagu was an English author and traveller.He was the son of Edward Wortley Montagu, MP and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems to have inherited....
(1713-1776), English author - Francis Wortley (fl. 1570s), High Sheriff of Derbyshire
- George C. WortleyGeorge C. WortleyGeorge Cornelius Wortley was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.Wortley was born in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Syracuse University in 1948. Wortley is a brother of the Gamma-Iota chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He was elected to...
(b. 1926), former American politician - James Stuart-WortleyJames Stuart-WortleyJames Stuart-Wortley may refer to:*Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley , British general*James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie , politician, known as James Stuart-Wortley from 1795 to 1803...
, several people - Lady Mary Wortley MontaguLady Mary Wortley MontaguThe Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was an English aristocrat and writer. Montagu is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her letters from Turkey, as wife to the British ambassador, which have been described by Billie Melman as “the very first example of a secular work by a woman about...
(1689-1762), English aristocrat and writer - Stuart-WortleyStuart-WortleyStuart-Wortley is the name of*James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie , British politician and soldier*John Stuart-Wortley , British politician*John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe , British politician...
, several people - Thomas Spencer-WortleyThomas Spencer-WortleyThomas Spencer-Wortley is an English classical crossover singer. Thomas is the brother of the British composer, Oliver Spencer-Wortley.-Background:...
(b. 1982), English classical singer