Adrian Stott wrote: > "trainfinder22" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We dont have anything that big out here on the canal... >> Piers refer to long narrow docks that extend out to the water on the >> great lakes...We never use the word Wharf on Fresh Water.. >> >> We have Marinas and Boat centers and we have ports... >> Oddly even places that are a hundred miles inland have port in there >> name like Willamsport PA
> Mike mentioned Cambrian Wharf in Birmingham. Also in Brum there are > several facilities known for hundreds of years as ports, e.g. Hockley > Port. I'd thought Hockley Port was a fairly modern name, given by its restorers around 1970. But in the same area there are both Dudley Port and Icknield Port, which are both old names, but not recognisable as ports in the trading sense - perhaps they are pre-canal names deriving from the "gate" meaning of port. Away from the Birmingham area Stourport-on-Severn (junction of Staff & Worcs Canal and River Severn), Ellesmere Port (junction originally of the Ellesmere Canal and the Mersy estuary) and Brimscombe Port (on the Thames & Severn Canal) are both genuine ports. In Scotland there's Port Dundas, on a branc of the Forth & Clyde Canal. > > I think "quay" was never used for a waterway facillity. In Britain, > it seems to have appeared only to refer to sanitised docks, e.g. > "Surrey Quays" for the infilled, shallowed, built over, and generally > sadly ruined Surrey Docks. "Salford Quays" in Manchester is another case in point. Like Adrian I can't think of any genuine inland waterway uses of the word "quay". -- Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
