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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 851 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUNCORN , a See also:

market See also:town and See also:river-See also:port in the See also:Northwich See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Cheshire, See also:England, on the S. of the See also:estuary of the See also:Mersey 16 m. above See also:Liverpool. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 16,491. It is served by the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway, and has extensive communications by See also:canal. The See also:modern prosperity of the town See also:dates from the completion In 1773 of the See also:Bridgewater Canal, which here descends into the Mersey by a See also:flight of locks. Runcorn is a sub-port of See also:Manchester, with which it is connected by the Manchester See also:Ship Canal, and has extensive wharfage and warehouse See also:accommodation. The See also:chief exports are See also:coal, See also:salt and See also:pitch; butthere is also a large See also:traffic in potters' materials. A trans-See also:porter See also:bridge between Runcorn and See also:Widnes, with a suspended See also:car worked by See also:electricity to convey passengers and vehicles (the first bridge of the See also:kind in England) was constructed in 1902. The town possesses See also:shipbuilding yards, See also:iron foundries, rope See also:works, tanneries, and See also:soap and See also:alkali works. Owing to the Mersey being here fordable at See also:low See also:water, Runcorn was in See also:early times of considerable military importance. On a See also:rock which formerly jutted into the Mersey iEthelfleda erected a See also:castle in 916, but of the See also:building there are now no remains; while the rock was removed to further the cutting of the ship canal. AEthelfleda is also said to have founded a town, but it is not noticed in Domesday.

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