- This category leads to websites about the River Mersey deriving its name from the Anglo-Saxon for "boundary river":,
- corresponding to Mercia and Northumbria, later between the historic counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.
- In 1974 the areas on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary and marine mouth, were absorbed into the
- metropolitan county of Merseyside.
- The River Mersey is formed with the confluence of the Rivers Goyt and Tame,
- now under the M60 and the Peel Centre in Stockport.
- The river winds south of Manchester, often forming the boundary of this city; Gatley a suburban area
- in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, south of Didsbury
- then west of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Sale before entering the Manchester Ship Canal at Irlam, then briefly
- representing the boundary between Salford City and Trafford Borough at Urmston, Carrinton and Partington,
- and crossed by a bridge at Warburton, to join the A57 to Warrington in Cheshire,
- where the canal is sluiced for the river to flow through the town centre before flowing west where it
- becomes estuarine between Runcorn and Widnes.
- Here the Mersey is spanned by A533 road bridge known as the Mersey Gateway.
- A shorter span is west, the A533, Silver Jubilee Bridge, paired with a rail bridge at Runcorn Gap.
- At this point the Manchester Ship Canal is still south of the estuary, and between the two road bridges, a lock
- serves as transit at high tide, but the main entrance is further west, north west of Ellesmere Port at locks
- in the Merseyside parish of Eastham.
- North of Eastham the mouth of the Mersey forms the metropolitan district boundary between Liverpool city
- and the Wirral Peninsula.
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Guide to the river and estuary, outlining its course, its crossings, navigation, recreation, environmental issues, with references and links to articles on its tributaries.
Report of a study into the distribution and upstream movement of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Includes maps of routes, tagging methods, observed behaviour, obstacles and failures to reach spawning areas.
[PDF] (September 01, 2001)
Guide to the river and estuary, outlining its course, its crossings, navigation, recreation, environmental issues, with references and links to articles on its tributaries.
Report of a study into the distribution and upstream movement of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Includes maps of routes, tagging methods, observed behaviour, obstacles and failures to reach spawning areas.
[PDF] (September 01, 2001)
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