Ellesmere Canal
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The Ellesmere Canal was a waterway in England and Wales that was planned to carry boat traffic between the rivers Mersey and Severn. The proposal would create a link between the Port of Liverpool and the mineral industries in north east Wales and the manufacturing centres in the West Midlands. However, the canal was never completed as intended because of its rising costs and failure to generate the expected commercial traffic.
The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct opened to traffic on the Ellesmere Canal in 1805.
Chirk Tunnel on the Ellesmere Canal was completed in 1802.
Whitby Locks, Ellesmere Port Docks.
The Llangollen Canal begins here with a flight of four locks raising the water level more than 34 feet (10 m) from the Shropshire Union.
Ellesmere Port
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Ellesmere Port is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England. Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, six miles north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. Ellesmere Port also forms part of the wider Birkenhead urban area, which had a population of 325,264 in 2011.
Ellesmere Port Civic Hall
Ellesmere Port Dock at the Manchester Ship Canal looking towards the Stanlow Refinery
Whitby lighthouse
Ellesmere Port Hospital