Everything about The River Irk totally explained
The
River Irk is a
river in
Greater Manchester in north-west
England that flows through the northern suburbs of
Manchester before merging with the
River Irwell in the city centre.
Rising to the east of
Royton, north of
Oldham and running west past
Chadderton (where it passes under the
Rochdale Canal) and
Middleton, its course has been extensively altered as the
Industrial Revolution took its toll on the city's landscape; the Irk has been labelled 'the lost river of Manchester'.
Historically, the Irk has also been known as the Iwrck or the Irke, names thought to have been derived from the
Roebuck, suggesting that the Irk was at one time a swift-running river, but by the start of the 20th century the Irk Valley between
Crumpsall and
Blackley had been left a neglected river, "not only the blackest but the most sluggish of all rivers". Recently a project has been set up to rejuvenate the river and remove the pollution.
The
Marxist writer
Engels vividly describes the banks of the Irk in
Manchester at the height of the city's industrial excess:
Manchester Victoria railway station into a cavernous brick tunnel at Ducie Bridge and empties unceremoniously into the
Irwell beneath a railway viaduct.
On
August 15 1953 the front coach of a
Manchester to
Bury electric train fell from the viaduct over the River Irk after colliding with a local steam train. Ten people were killed and 58 injured in what became known as the Irk Valley Junction disaster.
Tributaries
Gallery
image:River_Irk.JPG|Newtown Weir
image:Irk and Irwell Confluence.JPG|Confluence with River Irwell
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