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Mount Manisty is a large man-made hillock located between the
Mount Manisty is a large man-made hillock located between the Manchester Ship Canal
The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the Mersey Estuary at Eastham, near Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, it generally follows the original routes of the river ...
and the River Mersey northwest of Ellesmere Port in Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. The mound, which is tall, was created from earth excavated during the building of the ship canal between Eastham
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and Ellesmere Port in the late 19th century. The feature forms a narrow elevated stretch of land between the canal (this section of navigation is known as Manisty cutting) and the river.
Mount Manisty takes its name from the departmental engineer who was in charge of construction of this section, Edward Manisty, the second son of Sir Henry Manisty, one of the Justices of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.
The mound, which is described as a "striking feature" and a "considerable elevation", is also reportedly "bleak and pock-marked with rabbit holes". After Mount Manisty, the ship canal crosses the Frodsham marshes towards the Weaver Sluices and Runcorn. Stanlow and Ince mud banks lie in the upper Mersey estuary at this point along with several sand banks, particularly near Mount Manisty. The physical and chemical properties of these mud banks have been studied.
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