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Irwell| River in Lancashire, England; length 48 km/30 mi. The Irwell rises in the Rossendale upland, 3 km/2 mi south of Burnley, and flows into the Manchester Ship Canal. |
| In the 19th century it was described as ‘the most hard-worked river in the world’, because so many cotton mills used its water. As a result, it was also one of the most polluted, but with the decline of local heavy industry it has become much cleaner. |
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