Ellesmere Port
Coordinates: 53°16′44″N 2°53′49″W / 53.279, -2.897 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Ellesmere Port shown within Cheshire
Population	64,100 (2001)
OS grid reference	SJ4175
District	Ellesmere Port and Neston
Shire county	Cheshire
Region	North West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Ellesmere Port
Postcode district	CH65, CH66
Dial code	0151
Police	Cheshire
Fire	Cheshire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Ellesmere Port and Neston
European Parliament	North West England
List of places: UK • England • Cheshire

Arms of the former Ellesmere Port Borough Council

Ellesmere Port is a large industrial town and cargo port in the district of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire, England, situated in the south of the Wirral Peninsula on the estuary of the River Mersey, to the north of Chester. The town has a population of 64,100 as of the 2001 Census. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... 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Description

The town is primarily industrial, being dominated by a Shell oil refinery at Stanlow and a former ICI chemical works. The town is also home to the Vauxhall Motors car factory, noted for producing the Astra range of cars in the UK. There are a number of tourist attractions: the Boat Museum, the Blue Planet Aquarium and the McArthur Glen Cheshire Oaks outlet village. Royal Dutch Shell PLC is a multinational oil company (oil major) of British and Dutch origins. ... Stanlow Refinery is part of Shell Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, United Kingdom. ... Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is a British chemical group and one of the largest chemical producers in the world. ... For information about the football team see Vauxhall Motors F.C. Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. ... Opel Astra The Astra is a small family car of the General Motors Corporation, badged as an Opel in India, continental Europe and the Republic of Ireland; a Vauxhall in the United Kingdom, a Holden in Australasia, and a Chevrolet in Latin America. ... McArthur Glen is Europe’s leading designer outlet developer, owner and operator. ... Cheshire Oaks is the UKs largest designer outlet village with 145 stores. ...

History

The town of Ellesmere Port was founded as an outlet to the sea from Ellesmere, Shropshire and the Welsh border area around Llangollen via a canal initially called the Ellesmere Canal. The canal was designed and engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford as part of a project to connect the rivers Severn, Mersey and Dee. The canal connected to the Mersey in the village of Netherpool, and the basin was known as Whitby Locks. The section between Whitby Locks and Chester was opened in 1795, connecting two of the rivers; but the connection to the Severn was never completed. Ellesmere is a market town in Shropshire, England. ... Shropshire (alternatively Salop or abbreviated Shrops) is a county in the West Midlands of England. ... This article is about the sub-division of the United Kingdom. ... Llangollen is a small town in Denbighshire, north Wales, famous for the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Llangollen Canal (whose Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is nearby), and the Llangollen Railway. ... The Canal du Midi, Toulouse, France Canals are man-made channels for water. ... The Llangollen Canal we see today was previously called the Ellesmere Canal, but the Ellesmere Canal as originally envisaged was very different from what was eventually constructed. ... William Jessop (23 January 1745 - 18 November 1814) was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ... Thomas Telford (August 9, 1757 - September 2, 1834) was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. ... “Severn” redirects here. ... Ferry across the Mersey, June 2005 The River Mersey is a river in north-western England. ... Old Dee Bridge, River Dee, Chester, England (2002) The River Dee (Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70 mile (110 km) long river, which rises in Snowdonia, Wales and discharges to the sea a few miles west of Liverpool. ... For the larger local government district, see Chester City (district). ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The village of Netherpool gradually changed its name to the 'Port of Ellesmere', and by the early 19^th century, to Ellesmere Port. Settlements had existed in the area since the writing of the Domesday Book (the suburbs of Great Sutton, Little Sutton and Hooton are all mentioned). Many of the village names are derived from Old Norse, in common with much of the rest of the Wirral Peninsula, which had been an extensive Viking settlement. The first houses in Ellesmere Port itself, however, grew up around the docks and the first main street was Dock Street, which now houses the Boat Museum. Station Road, which connected the docks with the village of Whitby, also gradually developed and as more shops were needed, some of the houses became retail premises. As the expanding industrial areas growing up around the canal and its docks attracted more workers to the area, the town itself continued to expand. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... Wirral or The Wirral (Peninsula) (IPA: [wɪɹəɫ]) is a peninsula in North West England bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ... The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-born warriors and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia from the late 8th–11th century. ...

By the mid-20th century, thanks to the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894 and the Stanlow Oil Refinery in the 1920s, the town had expanded so that it now incorporated the villages of Great and Little Sutton, Hooton, Whitby, Overpool and Rivacre as suburbs. The town centre itself had moved from the Station Road/Dock Street area (now part of the Westminster housing estate) to an area that had once been home to a stud farm (indeed, Ellesmere Port and Neston borough council officially refer to the town centre as 'Stud Farm' for housing allocation purposes) around the crossroads of Sutton Way/Stanney Lane and Whitby Road. Demand for housing was further increased with the opening of the Vauxhall Motors car plant in 1962. Between the 1950s and 1980s, a number of new housing estates grew up, many of them on the sites of former farms such as Hope Farm and Grange Farm. Most of these estates consisted of both council housing and privately-owned homes and flats. In the mid-1980s, the Port Arcades, a covered shopping mall was built in the town centre, which complemented the erection of Lewis's store which was bought out by Asda prior to the completion of the Port Arcades. By the 1990s, it was the retail sector rather than the industrial that was attracting workers and their families to the town. This was boosted with the building of the Cheshire Oaks outlet village and the Coliseum shopping park, which also included a multiplex cinema; prior to this, following the demolition of the King's Cinema in Little Sutton, the town's only cinema had been a single screen in the EPIC Leisure Centre. The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry, is an establishment for selective breeding. ... Ellesmere Port and Neston is a local government district, borough and parliamentary constituency in Cheshire, England. ... A crossroads (the word rarely appears in singular) is another word for road junction, where two or more roads meet (there are three or more arms). ... For information about the football team see Vauxhall Motors F.C. Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Farms, East of Gorgan, Iran. ... Cheap, safe, housing owned by the British Government. ... McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, Swindon, England, a shopping mall built within a disused railway engine works. ... Lewiss was a department store group operating in the United Kingdom from 1856 to the 1990s. ... ASDA is a chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom offering food, clothing and general merchandise products. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... A typical AMC Theatres multiplex. ...

The town continues to grow and expand, and more housing estates and shops are being built. The industrial sector is still a major employer in the town although in recent years, a number of factories have been closed and jobs lost.

Government and politics

Ellesmere Port was nearly included into the Merseyside borough of Wirral when that was formed in 1974. It was removed from the proposals before the Local Government Act 1972 had its first reading, and instead remained in Cheshire as part of the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston. The two towns, and the other villages that comprise the borough, are thus the only places on the Wirral that are not included as part of Merseyside. Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. ... Wirral is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England, which occupies the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula, more commonly known as The Wirral. ... The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... The Cheshire Plain - photo taken adjacent to Beeston Castle The Cheshire Plain - photo taken towards Merseyside The Cheshire Plain panorama - photo taken from Mid-Cheshire Ridge Cattle farming in the county Black-and-white timbered buildings on Nantwich High Street Cheshire (or, archaically, the County of Chester)[1] is a... Ellesmere Port and Neston is a local government district, borough and parliamentary constituency in Cheshire, England. ...

Ellesmere Port is part of the Ellesmere Port and Neston parliament constituency. The current MP is Andrew Miller (Labour). Ellesmere Port and Neston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Andrew Peter Miller (born 23 March 1949) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and is Labour member of Parliament for Ellesmere Port and Neston. ...

In 2007, plans were announced to combine the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston with the Chester City and Vale Royal districts, to form a new "West Cheshire" unitary authority^[1]. For the smaller central city area, and principal settlement of this district, see Chester. ... Vale Royal is a local government district and borough in Cheshire, North West England. ... A unitary authority is a type of local authority, which has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. ...

Twin Towns

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Transport

Ellesmere Port has a railway station with frequent electric trains to Liverpool and occasional trains to Helsby. It is also located at the interchange of the M56 and the M53. Ellesmere Port railway station is located in the town of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. ... Helsby is a village and civil parish with a population of approximately 4700 in the borough of Vale Royal which is in the county of Cheshire in the North West of England. ... The M56 motorway, also known as the North Cheshire motorway, is a major road in England. ... The M53 motorway is a major road in England, running from Wallasey on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool, along the Wirral peninsula past Birkenhead and Ellesmere Port to just east of Chester, upon which motorway regulations end and it seamlessly becomes the A55 road, which continues...

The Manchester Ship Canal joins the Mersey estuary north-west of Ellesmere Port at Eastham, but the town is also the northern terminus of the Shropshire Union Canal (which used to exchange goods with sea-going boats at what is now the boat museum). The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ...

Notable Residents

The following people are natives of Ellesmere Port, or have lived there for a period of time.

• Lillian Beckwith, author, grew up in Ellesmere Port the daughter of a grocer as chronicled in her book About My Father's Business.
• Sam Chedgzoy, footballer who played for Everton between 1910-1926.
• Stan Cullis, former Wolverhampton Wanderers player and manager. His niece, Rita Cullis, a renowned opera singer is also from the town.
• Rob Jones, former Liverpool and England defender,resided in the town,actually born in Wales (Wrexham).
• Lee Latchford Evans (singer with the pop group Steps.)
• Joe Mercer, Everton and Arsenal player and caretaker-manager of the England national football team was a resident in 1974. There is a street in the town centre (Mercer Walk) named after him. The street is now part of the Port Arcades shopping mall.
• John Prescott, the British deputy prime minister, attended Grange Secondary Modern School in Ellesmere Port.
• Tony Woodley, head of the Transport and General Workers Union is not actually from the town, but resides there.

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Suburbs

• Whitby
• Great Sutton, including Hope Farm and Grange.
• Little Sutton
• Westminister
• Rivacre
• Overpool
• Hooton
• Great Stanney (locally called Stanney Grange) including Cheshire Oaks and Wolverham.
• Little Stanney

Great Sutton is a town on the Wirral Peninsula in England. ... Little Sutton is a village in Cheshire in the North of England. ... Overpool is a town on the Wirral Peninsula in England. ... Hooton is a village in Cheshire, England in the south of the Wirral Peninsula near Ellesmere Port. ...

References

1. ^ Future of local government in Cheshire

See also

• Ellesmere Port (dock)
• Hooton, Cheshire

Ellesmere Port Dock was a dock situated on the River Mersey, England, at Ellesmere Port. ... Hooton is a village in Cheshire, England in the south of the Wirral Peninsula near Ellesmere Port. ...

External links

• Ellesmere Port Standard (local newspaper)
• The Boat Museum
• The Blue Planet Aquarium
• Ellesmere Port & Neston Community Transport (Local Charity)

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Cities/Towns:	Alsager • Bollington • Chester • Congleton • Crewe • Ellesmere Port • Frodsham • Knutsford • Macclesfield • Middlewich • Nantwich • Neston • Northwich • Runcorn • Sandbach • Warrington • Widnes • Wilmslow • Winsford See also: List of civil parishes in Cheshire