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Ellesmere Port and Neston|region= North West England|constituency_westminster= [Ellesmere Port and Neston (UK Parliament constituency)|post_town= Ellesmere Port|postcode_district = CH65, CH66|postcode_area= CH|dial_code= 0151|os_grid_reference= SJ4175-->
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 United Kingdom Census 2001.
Description
The town is primarily industrial, being dominated by a
Royal Dutch Shell oil refinery at
Stanlow Oil Refinery and a former
Imperial Chemical Industries chemical works. The town is also home to the Vauxhall Motors car factory, noted for producing the General Motors Astra range of cars in the UK. There are a number of tourist attractions: the
Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, the Blue Planet Aquarium and the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet.
History
The town of Ellesmere Port was founded as an outlet to the sea from Ellesmere, Shropshire,
Shropshire and the Wales 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 River Severn, River Mersey and River Dee, Wales. 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.
The village of Netherpool gradually changed its name to the 'Port of Ellesmere', and by the early 19th 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.
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 were developed, 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 (movie theater) 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 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.
The Vauxhall plant at Ellesmere Port is now Vauxhall's only factory in Britain since the closure of the Luton plant in
2004, and currently produces the Vauxhall Astra and Vauxhall Vectra models for the British market. Doubts over the plant's future were ended in 2007 when General Motors confirmed that the next generation Astra will be built at the plant when it is launched in
2010. The Vectra's replacement is also expected to be built at the plant from 2008.
Government and politics
Ellesmere Port was nearly included into the
Merseyside borough of
Metropolitan 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.
Ellesmere Port is part of the Ellesmere Port and Neston (UK Parliament constituency) parliament constituency. The current Member of Parliament is Andrew Miller (politician) (Labour).
In 2007, plans were announced which proposed combining the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston with the Chester (district) and
Vale Royal districts to form a new "West Cheshire" unitary authority. Future of local government in Cheshire. Retrieval date: 27 July, 2007. On
25 July2007 following a consultation period, the name of the new unitary authority was officially announced to be City of Chester and West Cheshire. BBC News, 25 July 2007 - County split into two authorities. Retrieval Date: 27 July, 2007.
Twin Towns
Reutlingen,
Germany.
Transport
Ellesmere Port has a Ellesmere Port railway station with frequent electric trains to Liverpool and occasional trains to Helsby. It is also located at the interchange of the
M56 motorway and the M53 motorway.
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).
Sports
Speedway racing operated at the stadium in Thronton Road in the mid to late 1970s and in the 1980s. Ellesmere Port Gunners raced in the lower teir Leagues.
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 F.C. between 1910-1926.
- Stan Cullis, former Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. player and manager. His niece, Rita Cullis, a renowned opera singer is also from the town.
- Rob Jones (footballer born 1971), former Liverpool F.C. and England national football team defender,resided in the town,actually born in Wales (Wrexham).
- Lee Latchford Evans (singer with the pop group Steps.)
- Joe Mercer, Everton F.C. and Arsenal F.C. 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 former 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.
- Beverley Hughes, Labour Minister, born and educated in the town. Still has family connections locally.
Suburbs
References
See also
External links
- Ellesmere Port Standard (local newspaper)
- The Boat Museum
- The Blue Planet Aquarium
- Ellesmere Port & Neston Community Transport (Local Charity)
{{infobox UK place||country = England|official_name= Ellesmere Port|map_type=Cheshire|latitude= 53.279|longitude= -2.897|population = 64,100 (2001)|shire_district=
Ellesmere Port and Neston|region= North West England|constituency_westminster= [Ellesmere Port and Neston (UK Parliament constituency)|post_town= Ellesmere Port|postcode_district = CH65, CH66|postcode_area= CH|dial_code= 0151|os_grid_reference= SJ4175-->
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
United Kingdom Census 2001.
Description
The town is primarily industrial, being dominated by a
Royal Dutch Shell oil refinery at Stanlow Oil Refinery and a former Imperial Chemical Industries chemical works. The town is also home to the Vauxhall Motors car factory, noted for producing the General Motors Astra range of cars in the UK. There are a number of tourist attractions: the
Ellesmere Port Boat Museum, the Blue Planet Aquarium and the
McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet.
History
The town of Ellesmere Port was founded as an outlet to the sea from
Ellesmere, Shropshire, Shropshire and the Wales 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 River Severn,
River Mersey and River Dee, Wales. 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.
The village of Netherpool gradually changed its name to the 'Port of Ellesmere', and by the early
19th 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.
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 were developed, 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 (movie theater) 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 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.
The Vauxhall plant at Ellesmere Port is now Vauxhall's only factory in Britain since the closure of the Luton plant in 2004, and currently produces the
Vauxhall Astra and
Vauxhall Vectra models for the British market. Doubts over the plant's future were ended in 2007 when
General Motors confirmed that the next generation Astra will be built at the plant when it is launched in
2010. The Vectra's replacement is also expected to be built at the plant from 2008.
Government and politics
Ellesmere Port was nearly included into the
Merseyside borough of
Metropolitan 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.
Ellesmere Port is part of the
Ellesmere Port and Neston (UK Parliament constituency) parliament constituency. The current Member of Parliament is Andrew Miller (politician) (Labour).
In 2007, plans were announced which proposed combining the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston with the Chester (district) and
Vale Royal districts to form a new "West Cheshire"
unitary authority. Future of local government in Cheshire. Retrieval date: 27 July, 2007. On
25 July2007 following a consultation period, the name of the new unitary authority was officially announced to be
City of Chester and West Cheshire. BBC News, 25 July 2007 - County split into two authorities. Retrieval Date: 27 July, 2007.
Twin Towns
Reutlingen, Germany.
Transport
Ellesmere Port has a Ellesmere Port railway station with frequent electric trains to
Liverpool and occasional trains to
Helsby. It is also located at the interchange of the M56 motorway and the
M53 motorway.
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).
Sports
Speedway racing operated at the stadium in Thronton Road in the mid to late 1970s and in the 1980s. Ellesmere Port Gunners raced in the lower teir Leagues.
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 F.C. between 1910-1926.
- Stan Cullis, former Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. player and manager. His niece, Rita Cullis, a renowned opera singer is also from the town.
- Rob Jones (footballer born 1971), former Liverpool F.C. and England national football team defender,resided in the town,actually born in Wales (Wrexham).
- Lee Latchford Evans (singer with the pop group Steps.)
- Joe Mercer, Everton F.C. and Arsenal F.C. 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 former 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.
- Beverley Hughes, Labour Minister, born and educated in the town. Still has family connections locally.
Suburbs
- Whitby (Cheshire)
- Great Sutton, including Hope Farm and Grange.
- Little Sutton, Cheshire
- Westminister
- Rivacre
- Overpool
- Hooton, Cheshire
- Great Stanney (locally called Stanney Grange) including Cheshire Oaks and Wolverham.
- Little Stanney
References
See also
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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