57-653: Ellesmere Port ( / ˈ ɛ l z m ɪər / ELZ -meer ) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire , England. Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula , six miles (ten kilometres) north of Chester , on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census . Ellesmere Port also forms part of
114-405: A first language. According to the 2011 census, the main religion of Ellesmere Port is Christianity with 72.1% of the population. 20% have no religion, 6% are unspecified, 0.4% are Muslim, 0.2% are Buddhist, 0.1% Hindu and 0.2% other. Ellesmere Port is located at the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula , in the county of Cheshire. Its suburbs include Overpool to the north west, Westminster to
171-414: A month to be sure that pregnancy has occurred. However, with the invention of artificial insemination and the ability to ship semen, combined with the availability of DNA testing for parentage verification, many breed registries allow semen to be shipped from the stud farm to the location of the female animal, thus reducing or eliminating the need for animals to travel. A stud manager or "stud master"
228-571: A significant presence across the borough, with all its churches located in the Diocese of Shrewsbury . Methodist churches in the borough form groups averaging ten, known as 'circuits' (the four in Cheshire West and Chester are all part of the Chester and Stoke-on-Trent District). More marginal churches include Assemblies of God , Baptist Union , Elim Pentecostal , United Reformed and
285-718: A site near the Coliseum shopping park. Ellesmere Port was nearly included into the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral , in Merseyside , when that was formed on 1 April 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 . Plans were announced which proposed combining
342-676: Is also an infrequent service to Warrington . 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 seagoing boats at what is now the National Waterways Museum). Speedway racing operated at the stadium in Thornton Road in the mid to late 1970s and in
399-492: Is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock . The word " stud " comes from the Old English stod meaning "herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding". Historically, documentation of the breedings that occur on a stud farm leads to the development of a stud book . Male animals made available for breeding to outside female animals are said to be "standing at stud", or at "stud service", referencing
456-472: Is an individual responsible for an employer's breeding stock. The term is usually used for individuals working with dogs or horses . It is usually applied regardless of gender. The stud manager typically suggests desired matings to the owner, and arranges for the same, whether in-house or by contract with animals standing at stud, approves and arranges matings to the owner's animals at stud requested by outsiders, and keeps all records, including notifying
513-613: Is divided into forty-six wards, listed below in alphabetical order. There are ninety-seven parish councils in the borough, despite there being a total of 166 civil parishes before a community governance review was undertaken by the borough council in 2014 under section 82 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 . In line with nearly every local government district in England and Wales ,
570-848: Is most famous for its Principal and State Studs, which have been instrumental in the shaping of the German riding horses and several breeds of German cold bloods. The Hanoverian is associated with the State Stud of Celle , the Rhinelander and Westphalian with the State Stud of Warendorf , the Brandenburger with the Principal Stud of Neustadt an der Dosse, and so on. Other European state studs include: The German city of " Stuttgart " gets its name from stud farms. Around
627-426: Is one owned by the government. The first state studs were ordered by Louis XIV of France in 1665. The purpose of the state studs was to make high-quality horses available to local breeders and farmers to accelerate the evolution of local horses. Stud farms which kept a herd of mares in addition to stallions were dubbed "Principal" Studs. State-owned stallions were made accessible with low or no stud fees . Germany
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#1732772966529684-633: Is part of the Ellesmere Port and Neston parliamentary constituency. As of 2021, the current Member of Parliament (MP) is Justin Madders (Labour). The 2011 census records 27,134 households in Ellesmere Port, with 40.9% of the population aged between 30 and 59. It lists the ethnicity of the town as 95.2% White British, 0.8% White Irish, 1.6% White Other, 0.8% mixed ethnicity, 1.1% Asian, 0.2% Black and 0.1% other. 97.8% speak English as
741-797: Is routed via the M6, carrying international traffic between Scotland , North West England , the West Midlands and France via Southampton . European route E22 is routed via the A494 and M56, carrying international traffic between Ireland (the route in fact begins at the Port of Holyhead ), North Wales , North West England, Yorkshire and the Netherlands . Both routes meet at Lymm Interchange, which lies in neighbouring Cheshire East. Three Roman roads exist in Cheshire West and Chester: The section of
798-766: Is served by the local newspaper, Chester and District Standard (formerly The Ellesmere Port Standard). Ellesmere Port is located near the interchange of the M56 and the M53 motorways. The A41 road between Birkenhead and Chester , also passes through the area. The M56 carries the European Route E22 in this area. There is a bus station in the town centre with frequent services to Chester, Liverpool , Runcorn , Elton , Helsby , Frodsham , Birkenhead and Neston . There are also services to Mold , North Wales operated by Stagecoach. Occasional National Express coaches serve
855-473: Is situated on site of the old Stanney High School by Cheshire Oaks, the Coliseum and M&S. The following people are natives of Ellesmere Port, or have lived there for a period of time. [REDACTED] Media related to Ellesmere Port at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Ellesmere Port travel guide from Wikivoyage Cheshire West and Chester Cheshire West and Chester is a unitary authority area with borough status in Cheshire , England. It
912-477: The Blue Planet Aquarium and Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet . The town of Ellesmere Port was founded at the outlet of the never-completed Ellesmere Canal . The canal (now renamed) was designed and engineered by William Jessop and Thomas Telford as part of a project to connect the rivers Severn , Mersey and Dee . The canal was intended to be completed in sections. In 1795 the section between
969-560: The English Presbyterian Church of Wales in Chester . Aside from churches, there are two mosques in Cheshire West and Chester – one each in Chester and Ellesmere Port – which were subjected to property theft and racially aggravated disorder respectively in 2014. Cheshire West and Chester Council maintains six Local Nature Reserves : Burton Mill Wood, Helsby Quarry, Marshall's Arm, Rivacre Valley, Stanney Wood, and Whitby Park. There are no passenger airports in
1026-797: The M6 , M53 , M56 , A55 , A483 , A494 , A550 and a short section of the A41 in Hooton . Other primary routes which are maintained by the council (principal roads de jure ) include the A41, A49 , A51 , A54 , A56 , A483, A530 , A533 , A534 , A556 , A5115 , A5116 , A5117 and A5268 . Chester and Ellesmere Port – both primary route destinations – form the hub of the road network in Cheshire West and Chester, with routes of national importance carrying traffic in all directions to locations including Flintshire , Halton , Wirral and Wrexham . European Route E05
1083-483: The National Waterways Museum is paved with asphalt; it is a shared-use route between cyclists and pedestrians for a distance of 12.5 miles (20.1 km). In 2009, Chester was awarded the status of Cycling Town by Cycling England . To reflect this, a series of colour-coded signposted routes around the city were devised in 2012. The total length of new signposted routes created by the project
1140-521: The 1980s; since March 2013, the stadium has been back in use for greyhound racing. Ellesmere Port Gunners raced in the lower tier Leagues. The Gunners' best season was their last, 1985, when they won the National League championship. The campaign was marred by a career-ending injury sustained by inspirational captain Joe Owen. Owen was hurt in a track crash at Birmingham. Ellesmere Port Town F.C.
1197-896: The A51 between its western terminus and the B5132 was named as one of the most congested roads in the United Kingdom by INRIX in August 2015. Three local MPs – Graham Evans , Justin Madders and Chris Matheson – raised safety concerns about the M56 between J12 and J14 in parliament after more than 160 incidents were recorded since 2011. In response, Andrew Jones , the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, confirmed that an upgrade to smart motorway will only take place after 2020. Navigable waterways in
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#17327729665291254-710: The Cheshire Asian & Minority Communities Council, a registered charity headquartered in Chester . The main religion in Cheshire West and Chester is Christianity , with a percentage figure above the average for England (46.3%, 2021 ). The single largest church is the Church of England , with the borough being served by the Chester Archdeaconry, with six deaneries and an average of twenty parish churches in each deanery. Roman Catholicism also has
1311-511: The Cheshire West and Chester unitary authority was announced on 25 July 2007 following a consultation period, in which a proposal to create a single Cheshire unitary authority was rejected. The council is a unitary authority, being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. Full council meetings are held at Wyvern House in Winsford and the council has its main offices at The Portal in Ellesmere Port. The borough
1368-782: The Mid-Cheshire district leagues who cater for the areas of knutsford, Northwich, Middlewich and Winsford where teams representing neighbourhoods/villages and/or pubs/social clubs ('pub teams') compete. The largest football stadium in Cheshire West and Chester is the Deva Stadium , home to Chester FC, although the ground famously straddles the England-Wales border . Whilst the borough per se does not have any twinning agreements, several of its settlements have agreements predating its creation in 2009, listed below: Stud farm A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry
1425-710: The Queen's cinema adjacent to Ellesmere Port railway station in the 1960s the town's only cinema had been a single screen in the EPIC Leisure Centre. Since 1974 Ellesmere Port has been an unparished area when the civil parish of Ellesmere Port was abolished and all its functions were assumed by the new district of Ellesmere Port and Neston . The district was abolished in 2009, and the town no longer has its own council. In August 2012, Marks & Spencer opened their largest store (apart from Marble Arch in London) on
1482-639: The River Mersey at Netherpool and the River Dee at Chester was opened. However the canal was not finished as first intended; it never reached the River Severn. Upon reevaluation it was decided that the costs to complete the project were not projected to be repaid because of a decrease in expected commercial traffic. There had been a loss of competitive advantage caused by steam engine-related economic advances (nationally, regionally and locally) during
1539-579: The Station Road/Dock Street area, to an area that had once been home to a stud farm (indeed, the former Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council officially referred to the town centre as Stud Farm for housing allocation purposes) around the crossroads of Sutton Way/Stanney Lane and Whitby Road. The foundation stone for Ellesmere Port Civic Hall was laid by the Chairman of Ellesmere Port Borough Council, Horace Black, on 2 May 1953. It
1596-774: The UK for Sport Relief saw him pass through Little Sutton village centre and Hooton. The footage is only minutes long however. In 2012 Ellesmere Port played host to the Paralympic Flame as part of the Paralympic Torch Relay celebrations. West Cheshire Colleges campus in Ellesmere Port was one of the drop off points for the flame as well as the EPIC leisure centre and the David Lloyd Leisure Centre. Events included sporting demonstrations and
1653-493: The appropriate animal registries . In a European large or formal household the "Stud Master" or manager may be a permanent title and position; in this case this individual is often responsible for overseeing the maintenance of the stables and kennels as well. Most large stud farms have a full-time individual assigned to stallion management, but many stud managers have either a part-time or contractual arrangement or their duties as stud manager may be incorporated with those of
1710-506: The area are: Chester FC are the highest ranked club in the area and compete in the National League North (the sixth tier of English football . Northwich has four semi-professional teams – Barnton , Northwich Victoria , Witton Albion and 1874 Northwich – all of whom play in regional leagues. Winsford is also represented in the non-league pyramid by Winsford United , and Ellesmere Port by Vauxhall Motors FC –
1767-696: The borough include the Manchester Ship Canal , Shropshire Union Canal , Trent and Mersey Canal and the Weaver Navigation . The latter two are connected together by the Anderton Boat Lift , near Northwich; this is the only caisson lift lock in the United Kingdom. The area is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada with television signals received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter . Radio stations for
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1824-466: The borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston with the Chester and Vale Royal districts to form a new "West Cheshire" unitary authority . The new unitary authority came into being on 1 April 2009 as Cheshire West and Chester . The Conservatives won control of this council in shadow elections in May 2008, winning a majority of seats in the Ellesmere Port area for the first time. At national level, Ellesmere Port
1881-557: The borough; only a grass airfield exists in Little Budworth , with the nearest being Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Manchester Airport . National routes which pass through the borough include NCR5 , NCR45 ( Mercian Way ) , NCR56 , NCR562, NCR563, NCR568 and NCR573. Regional routes include 70 ( Cheshire Cycleway ) and 71. Three disused railways in the borough have been converted to off-road cycleways, including: The Shropshire Union Canal towpath between Waverton and
1938-545: The bus station. Most services are operated by Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire with one service operated by Helms of Eastham and another by Arrowebrook Coaches. Ellesmere Port railway station is on the Wirral line of the Merseyrail network and has a train service to Chester via Hooton and also Liverpool via Birkenhead. The line was electrified from Hooton to Ellesmere Port by British Rail in 1994. There
1995-557: The city's outskirts: Boughton Heath , Sealand Road, Upton and Wrexham Road; they run on two lines which intersect at Chester Bus Interchange. A fifth site is proposed near Hoole Village . Hooton station is designated as a park and ride facility for railway services on the Wirral Line; it contains a 418-space car park. Chester railway station is the hub of the railway network in the borough, with around 4.7 million passengers annually. Passenger numbers doubled to this figure in
2052-483: The docks and the first main street was Dock Street, which now houses the National Waterways 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. The main employer at this time was Burnell's Iron Works which had been set up at the end of the nineteenth century. This was followed by
2109-532: 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, Ellesmere Port 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
2166-527: The first decade of canal construction. During or before the construction of the canal the village of Netherpool 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 in the 11th century, which mentions Great Sutton , Little Sutton , Pool (now Overpool ) and Hooton . The settlement of Whitby
2223-661: The former works team of the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port assembly plant . Below level ten of the English pyramid are county-wide amateur leagues, with two covering the geographic area of the borough – the Cheshire Association Football League and West Cheshire Association Football League . Although several clubs are members of the former, many more compete in the latter. Below that is the Chester & Wirral Football League, and also
2280-607: The historic Claiborne Farm in Kentucky or the Darley Stud , owned by Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , which stands over fifty stallions at stud in facilities located in seven countries. Many stud farms make male animals available for breeding to outside female animals that are not owned by the stud farm. Doing so provides an outside source of revenue to a stud farm via the stud fees paid to obtain
2337-431: The majority of the population describe themselves as 'white'. The exact figure – 95.3% – is comparable with metropolitan counties such as Merseyside , non-metropolitan counties such as Cumbria and principal areas throughout Wales . This would suggest that the figure is not a significant outlier nationwide. The next largest ethnic group in the borough is Asian, who along with other ethnic minorities are supported by
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2394-641: The mid-1980s, the Port Arcades, a covered shopping mall was built in the town centre. 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 cinema; prior to this since the closure of the cinema in Station Road, Little Sutton (King's cinema) and
2451-723: The north, Rossmore to the north east, with Whitby and Wolverham to the south. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and ITV Granada . Television signals are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter. With its close proximity with North Wales , BBC Wales and ITV Cymru Wales can also be received from the Moel-y-Parc TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Merseyside on 95.8 FM, Capital North West & Wales on 97.1 FM, Heart North West on 105.4 FM, Smooth Radio North West on 100.4 FM, and Dee Radio on 106.3 FM. The town
2508-798: The opening of the Vauxhall Motors car plant in 1962. Opened as a components supplier to the Luton plant, passenger car production began in 1964 with the Vauxhall Viva . The plant is now Vauxhall's only car factory in Britain, since the end of passenger car production at the Luton plant in 2004 (where commercial vehicles are still made). Ellesmere Port currently produces the Vauxhall Astra model on two shifts, employing 2,500 people. In
2565-444: The parade of the Paralympic flame. Construction began in January 2014 for the new multimillion-pound Sports Village in Stanney Grange which initially was to incorporate an Olympic sized swimming venue (now smaller), tennis courts, football pitches and other sport halls, and will be the new home of Cheshire Phoenix , the local professional British Basketball League team from the start of the 2015/16 BBL Championship season. The village
2622-487: The relatively high probability that they are kept at a stud farm. The word stud is often restricted to larger domesticated (especially farm) animals, such as cattle and horses . A specialized vocabulary exists for the studs of other animals, such as kennel (dog), cattery (cat) and aviary (birds). During the Middle Ages , stud farms were often managed as part of a monastery . At the time, few people apart from monks could read and write, and so they were charged with
2679-440: The responsibility of recording pedigrees . The Carthusian monks are famous for their role in breeding the Andalusian horse in Spain , while monasteries in Bavaria were responsible for the original Rottaler horse. The oldest stud farm in Europe still in existence today is the Mews of Einsiedeln Abbey (1064) in Switzerland where Einsiedler horses are bred. A state stud farm ( German : Landgestüt , French : Haras )
2736-445: The services of the stud animal as well as contributing to the overall genetic diversity of the animal's offspring. At state stud farms, stud service is not only a source of income, but due to the high standards set for breeding animals, has an overall effect of improving the quality of animals throughout an area. In most cases, the owner of the female brings the animal to the stud farm for breeding, sometimes leaving her there for over
2793-426: The setting up of the Mersey Ironworks factory by the Wolverhampton Corrugated Iron Company In 1905 who settled on Ellesmere Port as a way of exploiting the company's international trade through the nearby ports of Birkenhead and Liverpool. Initially 300 workers and their families came from Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas to work in the factory, settling in a specially built worker's village named “Wolverham”. As
2850-456: The ten years to 2015, making the station the eighth-busiest in North West England . Railway lines, and their associated train operating companies in the borough, include: The sections of railway between Chester– Stockport and Chester– Warrington Bank Quay are proposed for electrification during the period 2019–2024. Motorways and primary routes in the borough which are maintained by National Highways ( trunk roads de jure ) include
2907-430: The wider Birkenhead urban area , which had a population of 325,264 in 2011. The town was originally established on the River Mersey at the entrance to the Ellesmere Canal . As well as a service sector economy, it has retained large industries including Stanlow oil refinery , a chemical works and the Vauxhall Motors car factory. There are also a number of tourist attractions including the National Waterways Museum ,
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#17327729665292964-427: The world, private individuals have breeding farms of various sizes that are dedicated to animal breeding, usually of purebred livestock. Some may have originally been founded with government assistance or sponsorship, or owned by political leaders, while others are solely the private enterprise of those who own them. Some of the largest and most impressive are those dedicated to Thoroughbred horse breeding, such as
3021-466: Was 38 miles (61 km), bringing the overall total in the borough to 312.5 miles (502.9 km). The total funding received from the cycling town project, which ended in 2011 when Cycling England was disbanded, was £4.4 million. A similar network of over 30 miles (48 km) of cycle routes branded the Ellesmere Port Grenway has been proposed by the town's development board. Chester has four park and ride sites located adjacent to radial routes on
3078-458: Was a township in the ancient parishes of Eastham and Stoak , within the Wirral Hundred . The township, which included the hamlets of Ellesmere Port and Whitbyheath, became a civil parish in 1866. To enhance the economic growth of the area, the Netherpool, Overpool and Whitby civil parishes were abolished on 1 April 1911 to become parts of the new civil parish of Ellesmere Port. The first houses in Ellesmere Port itself, however, grew up around
3135-540: Was designed in the modernist style and completed in 1955. The Ellesmere Port Council Offices were constructed just to the southwest of the civic hall and completed in 1969. In the 20th century, a number of new housing estates were developed, many of them on the sites of former farms such as Hope Farm and Grange Farm. Many estates consisted of both council housing and privately owned houses and flats. Ellesmere Port, in more recent times has had an influx of immigrants from Liverpool . Thus demand for housing increased with
3192-520: Was established on 1 April 2009 as part of the 2009 local government changes , by virtue of an order under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 . It superseded the boroughs of Ellesmere Port and Neston , Vale Royal and the City of Chester . The remainder of the ceremonial county of Cheshire is composed of Cheshire East , Halton and Warrington . Cheshire West and Chester has three key urban areas: Chester , Ellesmere Port and Northwich / Winsford . The decision to create
3249-463: Was once of town's main football team before the founding of Vauxhall Motors F.C. in 1963. Ellesmere Port Town F.C. was founded in 1948 and folded in 1973. The club's main achievements were playing in the Northern Premier League (The 7th tier in the English Football Pyramid) and reaching the F.A. Cup First Round in the 1971–1972 season, losing 3–0 to Boston United. Vauxhall Motors F.C. are the local football team. In 2009 Eddie Izzard and his run around
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