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Salthouse Dock

Salthouse Dock

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Salthouse Dock

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Location: North West England, England, United Kingdom

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1. Royal Liver Building – Otterspool Promenade loop from Broad Green

35.7km

01:42

150m

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Queen's Dock – Otterspool Promenade loop from Liverpool James Street

16.2km

00:49

40m

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Sefton Park Palm House – Royal Liver Building loop from Mossley Hill

59.2km

02:39

190m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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March 8, 2024

Designed by Thomas Steers and being built from 1734, Salthouse Dock was completed after his death by Henry Berry, opening in 1753. The dock was originally known as South Dock, the name changing because it was nearby to John Blackburne's saltworks. As is indicative of its name, the dock was an important transit terminal for the salt industry. Liverpool was a base for the refining of rock salt from Cheshire and its onward transportation. The dock also handled agricultural produce from Ireland and the Mediterranean. Around 1769, John Okill had a shipyard on the south side.[better source needed]

British Empire Dockyards and Ports, 1909
Structural improvements were made to the dock basin in 1842 and 1855.
The opening of the Albert Dock in 1846 allowed vessels to be unloaded there, before moving on to the Salthouse Dock for loading. By the mid-19th century, the main trade from the dock was with China and the East Indies.The dock served square rigged sailing ships until about 1914.

Custom House railway station, on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, was opened at the north-east corner of the dock in 1893. The station, opened at the same time as the railway, was renamed Canning in 1947 and closed in 1956 along with the railway. By 1920, the Wapping and Salthouse Goods Depot of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was on the eastern side of the dock.

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March 8, 2024

Very busy in the summer with foot traffic

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Salthouse Dock

1. Royal Liver Building – Otterspool Promenade loop from Broad Green

2. Queen's Dock – Otterspool Promenade loop from Liverpool James Street

3. Sefton Park Palm House – Royal Liver Building loop from Mossley Hill

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