Worsley River is a
river in the
South West
The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each sepa ...
region of
Western Australia. The river rises in the
Darling Range
The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to th ...
south of the old timber town of
Worsley then flows east and south discharging into the
Collie River in Wellington Reservoir.
[
The Worsley River was named after Charles Anderson-Pelham, Lord Worsley, patron of the Western Australian Land and Emigration Committee, which included James Stirling, John Hutt, ]William Hutt (MP)
Sir William Hutt, KCB, PC (6 October 1801 – 24 November 1882) was a British Liberal politician who was heavily involved in the colonisation of New Zealand and South Australia.
Background and education
Hutt was born in Bishops Stortford, ...
, Edward Barrett-Lennard and Captain Bunbury. The committee promoted emigration to the Swan River colony and the Western Australian Land Company, which established the Australind land settlement project in 1841 under Marshall Waller Clifton. The name was first recorded in surveys performed in the area in 1845.
References
{{Rivers of Western Australia
Rivers of the South West region