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River Gowy Valley and River Mersey Estuary – Cheshire

This video explores aspects of the landscape and history of the lower valley of the River Gowy in west Cheshire, together with the wider Mersey estuary – into which the Gowy flows via a syphon beneath the Manchester Ship Canal, at the Stanlow Oil Refinery. Chapter sponsorships are available – these provide a link to a website or social media page – contact info@geolinks.tv for more information. Chapters: 00:00 Origins of the Rivername Gowy: a legacy of the Brythonic Celtic speaking tribespeople, known to the Romans as the Cornovii. 00:51 Helsby Hill Defensive Enclosure: this hillfort enclosure was probably originally constructed in the Middle Bronze Age, according to recent radiocarbon dating evidence, making it one of the oldest hillforts so far dated in the country. Even earlier evidence of human activity at Helsby dates back to the Early Neolithic Period, from both surface finds and excavation. 01:46 The 400-acre Gowy Meadows Nature Reserve: established in 2002 by Royal Dutch Shell on land attached to the Stanley Oil Refinery, and managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. The 770-acre Stanlow Oil Refinery – owned by Essar Oil UK since August 2011, it is the second largest in the country after the Fawley refinery on Southampton Water. 04:42 Tranmere Oil Terminal: entirely supplies Stanlow, and opened in June 1960. It handles 140 ships annually, docking at two berths: Tranmere North and South. 05:31 Eastham Oil Terminal: opened in January 1954, and is located besides the entrance locks to the Manchester Ship Canal. 06:20 The Cistercian Abbey on Stanlow Island: founded after 1172 by John Fitz Richard – the 6th Baron of Halton, and the Constable of Chester Castle. It was dedicated to St Mary, and served as a daughter abbey to the order's large abbey at Combermere, which was founded in the 1130s. According to the chronicles of St Werburgh's Abbey at Chester there were serious floods at Stanlow; a storm brought down the abbey's tower in 1287, and much of the remaining building was destroyed by a fire two years later. In 1294 the monks were permitted to move to Whalley, in the valley of the River Lune in Lancashire. 09:00 The Chester to Wilderspool Roman road (Margary Number 701): the 19 mile road linked the legionary fortress of Deva at Chester to the industrial and trading settlement at Wilderspool, south of Warrington. The placenames Mickle Trafford and Bridge Trafford are probably derived from a corruption of Stratford meaning 'street ford'. The word street derives from the Latin via strata – meaning 'paved road'. 12:13 Ince Roman Fortlet: first identified as a crop mark by aerial photography in June 1992; 3.6 miles north of Bridge Trafford, between Hall Farm and the Manchester Ship Canal. The fortlet housed auxiliary troops, and is thought to have been constructed around the same time as the fortress of Deva at Chester – the building of which commenced around AD74. It was built to monitor marine traffic transiting the Mersey to Wilderspool, and possibly to guard against incursions from Brigantia to the north. 13:04 Trafford Mill: a mill in the Mickle Trafford township was first documented in the Cheshire Chamberlains' Account of 1302-3. Sometime after 1823 John Talbot – the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury – commissioned improvements to the existing 18th century Trafford corn mill, as part of a scheme of improvements on the estate. The mill has two undershot water wheels of the ponsulate style. In 2015 the Mickle Trafford Mill Trust was formed, as a local community volunteer organisation to preserve the mill and its grounds, as well as to raise funds to restore it to working order, and create an education centre and café.   / mickletraffordmillcharitabletrust   16:40 Walk Mill: a working flour mill and café located in Stapleford, east of Waverton and south of Tarvin. 17:25 St Peter’s Church, Plemstall: Mickle Trafford lies in the Parish of Plemstall, part of the Diocese of Chester. The parish church of St Peter's stands on a slightly elevated hillock overlooking the now drained Gowy floodplain, above the 10-metre contour lines, on a site historically known as the 'The Isle of Chester'. 19:35 St Plegmund’s Well: one of only two Holy Wells in west Cheshire, associated with the renowned Mercian scholar and cleric Plegmund, who is reputed to have lived here as a hermit in the late 9th century. Plegmund was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by King Alfred the Great of Wessex in 890, and later served his son and successor – King Edward the Elder – until 923.