WORKINGTON  , a municipal

borough, seaport and market town in the Cockermouth parliamentary division of Cumberland, England, 34 M . S.W. of Carlisle, served by the Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith, the London & North-Western and the Cleator & Workington Junction railways . Pop . (19o1) 26,143 . It lies on the S. bank of the river Derwent, at its outflow into the Irish Sea . The harbour is safe, being protected by a stony beach and by a breakwater . The Lonsdale dock is 42 acres in extent . The port was made subordinate to that of Maryport in 1892 . There are large collieries in the neighbourhood of the town, the workings in some cases extending beneath the sea, and blast-furnaces, engineering works, cycle and motor works, ship-building yards and paper mills . The borough is under a mayor, 7 aldermen and 21 councillors . Area, 2245 acres . Neat-the town is Workington Hall, a castellated structure retaining some of the ancient rooms, including that in which Mary, queen of Scots; is said to have slept when she escaped to England after the battle of Langside in May 1568 .