Sandon Dock
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{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}
{{Infobox docks
| name = Sandon Dock
| image = Sandon Dock gates 2019-2.jpg
| caption = Sign on gate pillar
| location = Vauxhall, Merseyside, United Kingdom
| coordinates = {{coord|53.4283|-3.0015|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}}
| grid_ref_UK = SJ334928
| owner =
| closed = Yes (closed and filled)
| type = Wet dock
| area = {{convert|10|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|100|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}}{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 83}}
| width_entrance = {{convert|70|ft|m|abbr=on}}{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 116}}
| quay_length = {{convert|867|yd|m|abbr=on}}
}}
Sandon Dock was a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. Situated in the northern dock system, it was east of Sandon Half Tide Dock, to which it was once connected.
History
It was designed by Jesse Hartley and opened in 1851. Originally the dock basin was considerably larger and consisted of six graving docks to the north.{{citation|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/theme10.html#san|title=Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks (Sandon Dock)|publisher=Liverpool Museums|access-date=20 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028185038/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/theme10.html#san|archive-date=28 October 2008}}
Sandon and Canada Dock Goods railway station was situated adjacent to the dock, and opened by the Midland Railway in 1873.{{cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/huskisson/index2.shtml|title=Sandon & Canada Dock Goods Station|work=Disused Stations|access-date=2 September 2016}} The goods station could be accessed via the Huskisson Goods Tunnel, which was opened by the Cheshire Lines Committee in 1882 and closed in 1969.{{cite web|url=http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/h/huskisson_goods_tunnel/index.shtml|title=Site Name: Huskisson Goods - Sandon & Canada Dock Goods Branch Tunnel|work=Subterranea Britannica|access-date=2 September 2016}} The goods station continued being used until 21 July 1969, and was later demolished. Sandon Dock railway station, between the dock and the goods station, was opened by the Liverpool Overhead Railway in 1893 and was closed before May 1896.{{cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/sandon_dock/|title=Station Name: Sandon Dock|work=Disused Stations|access-date=2 September 2016}}
When Sandon Half Tide Dock was created at the turn of the 20th century, the remaining area was enclosed as Sandon Dock.
After trade decreased, the dock became derelict and was then converted to use as a fish farm.{{harvnb|Woolley|1989|pp=40–41}} The dock was filled in 1989,{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=279}} with the site redeveloped as a sewage treatment plant and pumping station.
References
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=Sources=
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/liverpoolin185900bain|title=Liverpool in 1859|first=Thomas|last=Baines|year=1859|publisher=Longman & Co.|location=London|oclc=43484994}}
- {{cite book|first1=Richard|last1=Pollard|first2=Nikolaus|last2=Pevsner|title=Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780300109108|oclc=63396571}}
- {{cite book|first=Peter W.|last=Woolley|title=Liverpool|volume=2: A Portrait of the Docks and River Mersey|publisher=S. B. Publications|year=1989|isbn=9781870708173|oclc=834469835}}
Further reading
- {{cite book|title=Give a Dock a Good Name?|first1=Ken|last1=McCarron|first2=Adrian|last2=Jarvis|publisher=Merseyside Port Folios|location=Birkenhead|year=1992|pages=83–84|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}}
External links
{{Commons category|Sandon Dock, Liverpool|Sandon Dock}}
- {{Cite web
|url=http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2.htm
|title=Liverpool North Docks diagram
|publisher=Liverpool 2007
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070330201457/http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2.htm
|archive-date=30 March 2007
}}
{{Port of Liverpool docks}}