The Mersey and Irwell Navigation was a river navigation in North West England, which provided a navigable route from the Mersey estuary to Salford and Manchester...
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Irwell's lower reaches were a trading route that became part of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. In the 19th century, the river's course downstream of Manchester...
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1776) and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (from 1830) but by the late 19th century the Mersey and Irwell Navigation had fallen into disrepair and was...
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with an aqueduct across the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. Due mainly to strong objections from the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, who would have suffered...
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November 1822 at the estate of William Earle, a director of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company, in Everton, Liverpool. Billy's skull now resides in...
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length and was built to provide a direct waterway between the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and the Bridgewater Canal. The canal opened in 1838 and was superseded...
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Bridgewater Canal (category Irwell Valley)
transported his coal along the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and also by packhorse, but each method was inefficient and expensive; river transport was...
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Castlefield (section Medieval and early modern periods)
were linked with the Mersey and Irwell Navigation by two short cuts. In 1848 the two viaducts of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway crossed...
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Sankey Canal (redirect from Sankey Brook Navigation)
the Bridgewater Canal and the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, but this was never implemented. The Sankey Canal was built for Mersey Flats, the common sailing...
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Manchester in 1712. An Act of Parliament authorizing the Mersey and Irwell Navigation was passed in 1721 and the work, which included eight locks in a distance...
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transport, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, the Bridgewater Canal and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, dated from the 18th century, and were felt to be...
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connected the Mersey and Irwell Navigation to the River Mersey at Runcorn. The canal was built to bypass the shallow stretches of the Mersey at Fiddlers...
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Runcorn Docks (category Mersey docks)
This consisted of the Bridgewater Canal and the Mersey and Irwell Navigations, together with their docks and warehouses. The company developed further...
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returned to the Mersey and Irwell navigation to perform a survey. He reported that if the locks and cuts were kept in good order and the millers prevented...
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Liverpool F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry (redirect from Liverpool FC and Manchester United FC football rivalry)
of the Bridgewater Canal, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and the world's first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, for the transport...
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Runcorn (category Port cities and towns in North West England)
River Mersey. During the 18th century, water transport had been improved in the area by the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, the Bridgewater Canal and the...
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Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry (redirect from Liverpool F.C. and Manchester City F.C. rivalry)
of the Bridgewater Canal, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, and the world's first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, for the transport...
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Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal (redirect from Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway)
rapid flooding and dry seasons, confined local river transport to the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, west of Manchester. Financial unrest and British involvement...
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Warburton, Greater Manchester (redirect from Rixton and Warburton Bridge Act 1863)
Rixton and Warburton Bridge Act 1863 established that if the Mersey and Irwell Navigation was upgraded to allow sea-going vessels, then the Rixton and Warburton...
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Canal, which is the canalised section of the River Irwell at this point. The old course of the Mersey has been obliterated by the canal past Hollins Green...
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1794. Rivers Mercy and Irwell Navigation Act 1720 (7 Geo. 1. St. 1. c. 15) The Company of Proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. St. Martin's Church...
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of the Bridgewater Canal, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation and the world’s first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, for the transport...
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Manchester Liverpool Road railway station (category Former London and North Western Railway stations)
part of the Science and Industry Museum. As a consequence of opposition from the proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, it had been intended...
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the rivers Mersey, Dee and Weaver, and canals and navigations such as the Bridgewater Canal, the Sankey Canal, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, the Weaver...
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Emma (1828 ship) (category Irwell Valley)
Mersey and Irwell Navigation, in Manchester. Built by the New Quay Company, it was one of the largest cargo vessels to be built alongside the Irwell....
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Oldham (section Industrial Revolution and cotton)
Pennines on elevated ground between the rivers Irk and Medlock, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Rochdale, and 7 miles (11.3 km) northeast of Manchester. It is...
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port of Liverpool, which was connected with Manchester by the Mersey and Irwell Navigation—the two rivers had been made navigable from the 1720s onwards...
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(1999). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. Journal of Navigation: Cambridge University Press 52 p. 149–162. Treglown, Tony (2011). Porthleven...
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Cotton mill (category Industrial buildings and structures)
centre for wool and Leigh and south towards Manchester, used flax and raw cotton imported along the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. During the Industrial Revolution...
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Manchester and Salford Junction Canal opened, which provided a link between a private branch of the Rochdale Canal and the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. It had...
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