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Ellesmere Port Dock was situated on the River Mersey at Ellesmere Port.

The Ellesmere Canal gives it's name to the area were the canal joins the Mersey, by the mid-1790s it was known as Ellesmere Port. Docks and warehouses were built to facilitate this.

Between 1830 and the 1840s facilituiws where improved by Thomas Telford amongst others.

In 1892 a new wharf to handle traffic on the Manchester Ship Canal

In 1921 the docks were leased to the Manchester Ship Canal and this led to the decline of Ellesmere Port

The site is now Ellesmere Port Boat Museum

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