Ellesmere, a town of Shropshire, near a beautiful lake or mere of 120 acres, 19 miles NNW. of Shrewsbury. Pop. 1875. The Ellesmere Canal, connecting the Severn and the Mersey, passes here. It is carried across the Dee and the Vale of Llangollen by Telford's Ellesmere Aqueduct (1805), 1007 feet long and 127 high. Ellesmere Port, at its mouth, on the Mersey, is a station on the line of the Manchester Ship Canal.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 303–304
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