Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
Historical Description
Ellesmere Port, a village, a port, and an ecclesiastical parish in Eastham parish, Cheshire. The village and port stand on the river Mersey, at the junction of the Shropshire Union Canal with the Manchester Ship Canal, 7 miles NNE of Chester, and 9 SE of Birkenliead, with a station on the Hooton and Helsby branch of the L. & N.W. and G.W. Joint railways, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chester. There are docks and warehouses here, and an important depot for iron ore. The ecclesiastical parish includes the townships of Nether Pool, Over Pool, and part of Whitby, i.e. that part of Whitby which is in the old parish of Eastham, from which this new ecclesiastical parish was taken. Population, 5344. When the census was taken, the ship canal was in course of construction. The present population is probably about 3300. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; net value, £195 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church was erected in 1869, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cheshire | |
Hundred | Wirrall | |
Poor Law union | Wirrall |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Ellesmere Port from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ellesmere-Port)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Cheshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ellesmere Port are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cheshire papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Cheshire, 1580 is available on the Heraldry page.