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  • |picture caption=Liverpool from the Mersey ...ted Kingdom|shire]] along the Irish Sea coast, stretching from the [[River Mersey]] in the south to the [[Furness]] Fells in the north.
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  • ==The Etherow and the Mersey== ...therow and Goyt; for example the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica says of the Mersey "It is formed by the junction of the Goyt and the Etherow a short distance
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  • ...h [[Mossley]] and down to [[Stalybridge]],where it turns west, and on to [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Dukinfield]], [[Haughton Green]], [[Denton, Lancashire]] an ...is joined by the [[River Goyt]], and the united river becomes the [[River Mersey]], which marks the county boundary from here to the sea
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  • ...le''' is a town in [[Cheshire]], standing on the south bank of the [[River Mersey]], which marks the border with [[Lancashire]]. The conurbation of south La The town is built on the flat plain of the Mersey, 2½ miles north-east of [[Altrincham]], and five miles south-west of the c
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  • ...] by the [[River Tame, Lancashire|River Tame]], a tributary of the [[River Mersey]]. There are several areas and suburbs in Hyde, these include, Gee Cross, N ...nly. The Ashton family built Hyde Chapel on Stockport Road, Gee Cross. The Ashton Brothers' Mill has recently been demolished to make way for a housing estat
    8 KB (1,325 words) - 19:22, 30 December 2016
  • ...e west by the [[Irish Sea]] and in the south-west and south by the [[River Mersey]] and Glazebrook, to the east is [[Salfordshire|Salford Hundred]] and to th On 18 October 1229, Henry III granted all land from the Ribble to the Mersey, including West Derby, Liverpool, the village of Salford, and the wapentake
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  • ...(1086) included south Lancashire with Cheshire for convenience, but the [[Mersey]], the name of which means 'boundary river' is known to have divided the ki ...mes1951"/> In 1956 the court's area was extended across the [[River Mersey|Mersey]] into Cheshire to encompass the entirety of the County Borough of Stockpor
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  • ...dome is overlain by sandstones of Triassic age though these barely impinge upon the National Park. ...and [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]], which are tributaries of the [[River Mersey]]. The north-east is drained by tributaries of the [[River Don, Yorkshire|R
    44 KB (6,703 words) - 10:17, 24 December 2016
  • ...hire]], to the junction with the [[Ashton Canal]] at Whitelands Basin in [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Lancashire]]. It crosses the [[Pennines]] by means of 74 lo ...the [[River Tame, Lancashire|Tame]] valley to the [[Ashton Canal]] near [[Ashton-under-Lyne]]. There were many woollen, worsted and cotton mills along its r
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  • ...ng more than 60 square miles, the forest stretched from the [[River Mersey|Mersey]] in the north to [[Nantwich]] in the south, and from the [[River Gowy|Gowy ...e=FC_info /><ref>[http://www.merseyforest.org.uk/pages/us_overview.asp The Mersey Forest: Overview] (accessed 8 May 2010)</ref> Nearly all the Forestry Commi
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  • ...ame, Lancashire|River Tame]] and [[River Goyt]], headwaters of the [[River Mersey]]. ...hich depended on the water power provided by the head-streams of the River Mersey, and the [[Peak Forest Canal]] along which more mills were built.
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  • ...which radiate from Manchester city centre to termini at [[Altrincham]], [[Ashton-under-Lyne]], [[Bury]], [[Didsbury|East Didsbury]], [[Eccles]], [[Mancheste ...ochdale]]), the East Manchester Line (routed east to East Manchester and [[Ashton-under-Lyne]]), the South Manchester Line (routed southeast to [[Chorlton-cu
    75 KB (10,297 words) - 14:03, 26 July 2016
  • *Ashton on Mersey Golf Club - [[Manchester]] (extends into Lancashire) *Mersey Valley Golf Club - [[Widnes]]
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  • ...er and seven for Stockport, on a high eminence one mile to the west of the Mersey, from which the river ground begins to rise; half the way being so steep as ...flyer service to Manchester. Before the Industrial Revolution Mottram and Ashton had been the most significant towns in the area, the manor and manorial cou
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  • ...ctions in 1799. The bottom nine locks opened in 1800 and boats using the [[Ashton Canal]] could reach Manchester.<ref name=ro_rise>{{cite web |url=http://www ...h provided a link between a private branch of the Rochdale Canal and the [[Mersey and Irwell Navigation]]. It had been built because around 30,000 tons of go
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  • ...Ashton Canal]], [[Peak Forest Canal]], [[Macclesfield Canal]], [[Trent and Mersey Canal]], [[Bridgewater Canal]] and [[Rochdale Canal]]. ...ond World War, sections of the [[Rochdale Canal|Rochdale]], [[Ashton Canal|Ashton]] and [[Peak Forest Canal|Peak Forest]] Canals that make up the urban part
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  • ...[Congleton]] to a junction with the [[Hall Green Branch]] of the [[Trent & Mersey Canal]] at Hall Green stop lock (the branch itself joins the main line a mi ...boats would arrive at Macclesfield from both directions at the same time, upon arrival, a salute was fired, and the Band of the Macclesfield Cavalry playe
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  • ...:Trent mersey canal near branston water park.jpg|thumb|300px|The Trent and Mersey Canal near Branston Water Park]] ...ast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of [[Burton upon Trent]] and west of Middlewich, it is a wide canal.
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  • ...al) which was authorised by an Act of Parliament on 4 April 1794 to link [[Ashton-under-Lyne]] and [[Huddersfield]] via a tunnel. His report in October 1793 ...d and a sub-committee visited the [[Harecastle Tunnel]] on the [[Trent and Mersey Canal]], the [[Butterley Tunnel]] on the [[Cromford Canal]] and the [[Norwo
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  • ...hence following Le Merebroke unto the confluence of the waters of Tame and Mersey</blockquote> ...t does not flow to the Tame, but joins Cringle Brook, which flows into the Mersey several miles away via Chorlton Brook. With this exception, Crofton's inter
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