Mount Manisty

{{Short description|Manmade hill in Cheshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}

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Mount Manisty is a large uninhabited man-made hillock located between the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey {{convert|1.5|mi}} northwest of Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, England.{{cite book|last=Owen|first=David Elystan|title=Canals to Manchester|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qhsNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1977|publisher=Manchester University Press ND|isbn=978-0-7190-0686-9|page=127}} The mound, which is {{convert|100|ft|m}} tall,{{cite journal |title=The Manchester Ship Canal |journal=The Nineteenth Century |issue=January–June 1894 |page=15}} was created from earth excavated during the building of the ship canal between Eastham and Ellesmere Port in the late 19th century.{{cite book |title=The Manchester Ship Canal |author=David Owen |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1983 |isbn=0-7190-0864-6 |pages=46, 122}} The feature forms a narrow elevated stretch of land between the canal (this section of navigation is known as Manisty cutting) and the river.{{cite book|author=British Trust for Ornithology. Bird-Ringing Committee|title=British birds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W58HAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1937|publisher=British Trust for Ornithology|pages=49–50}}

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.{{cite book|last=Leech|first=Sir Bosdin Thomas|title=History of the Manchester Ship Canal: from its inception to its completion; with personal reminiscences|url=https://archive.org/details/historymanchest01leecgoog|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1907|publisher=Sherratt & Hughes}}

The mound, which is described as a "striking feature" and a "considerable elevation",{{cite book|title=The Twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mu1XAAAAIAAJ|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1894|publisher=The Nineteenth Century and After Limited.|page=15}}{{cite book|author=Design Council|title=Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7FBQAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1894|publisher=Office for Advertisements and Publication|page=134}} 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 Island and Ince mud banks lie in the upper Mersey estuary at this point along with several sand banks, particularly near Mount Manisty.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Water Pollution Research Board|title=Water pollution research ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8UVAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1928|publisher=H. M. Stationery Office.|page=48}} The physical and chemical properties of these mud banks have been studied.{{cite book|author1=Great Britain. Dept. of the Environment|author2=Great Britain. Water Pollution Research Board|author3=Great Britain. Ministry of Technology|title=Water pollution research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQtCAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=3 October 2011|year=1933|publisher=H. M. S. O.|page=40}}