Hornby Dock

Overview Hornby Dock area, June 2009

Hornby Dock was a dock located on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. It was situated in the northern dock system in Bootle. It connected to Gladstone Dock to the north and Alexandra Dock to the south and encompassed a sloping quayside.

Opened in 1884, Hornby Dock marked the completion of Liverpool dock system's period of expansion in the nineteenth century. Used by the timber trade, the dock was named after Thomas Dyson Hornby, chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board between 1876 and 1889.^[1]

Apart from an access channel along the river wall, the dock has been filled in to provide additional space for the coal terminal at Gladstone Dock.^[2]

References

↑ Hornby Dock, Liverpool History Online, retrieved 16 July 2008
↑ Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks, Liverpool Museums, retrieved 16 July 2008

External links

Liverpool North Docks diagram

Coordinates: 53°27′06″N 3°00′46″W / 53.4518°N 3.0129°W / 53.4518; -3.0129

Port of Liverpool docks

North docks	Alexandra Dock Bramley-Moore Dock Brocklebank Dock Canada Dock Carrier Dock Clarence Dock Collingwood Dock East Waterloo Dock Gladstone Dock Hornby Dock Huskisson Dock Langton Dock Nelson Dock Princes Dock Princes Half Tide Dock Salisbury Dock Sandon Dock Sandon Half Tide Dock Seaforth Dock Stanley Dock Trafalgar Dock Victoria Dock Wellington Dock West Waterloo Dock

South docks	Albert Dock Brunswick Dock Brunswick Half Tide Dock Canning Dock Canning Half Tide Dock Coburg Dock Dukes Dock George's Dock George's Basin Harrington Dock Herculaneum Dock King's Dock Manchester Dock Old Dock Queen's Dock Salthouse Dock South Ferry Basin Toxteth Dock Wapping Dock

See also Port of Liverpool and List of Liverpool Docks (with coordinates and north-south sequence)

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