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Ellesmere Port is an industrial town 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. DESCRIPTION The town is primarily industrial, being dominated by a , the "Blue Planet" aquarium, the McArthur Glen Cheshire Oaks outlet village, and a Flea Market . HISTORY Not mentioned in the Domesday Book , Ellesmere Port used to be part of the parish of Eastham . The town was founded, as the name suggests, as an outlet to the sea from Ellesmere , Shropshire and the Wales border area around Llangollen (via a Canal then called the Ellesmere Canal ). The canal was engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford as part of a project to connect the rivers Severn , Mersey and Dee . The section between what was then called Whitby Locks, and Chester, was opened in 1795 , but the connection to the Severn was never completed. The canal is now part of the Shropshire Union Canal . The Boat Museum, now part of the National Waterways Museum was founded around some of the surviving historic port buildings and basins; it opened in 1976. 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 . 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). LOCAL GOVERNMENT 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 . FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM ELLESMERE PORT Famous people from the town include the British deputy prime minister John Prescott , the footballers Joe Mercer (who has a street named after him) and Stan Cullis , and the singer Lee Latchford Evans . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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