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{{Short description|Disused dock in Birkenhead, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2017}}
{{Infobox docks
| name = Egerton Dock
| image = Birkenhead docks - Egerton House - geograph.org.uk - 470607.jpg
| caption = Egerton House, originally opened on 24 June 1873 as a railway goods warehouse.<ref>{{harvnb|Maund|2000|p=31}}</ref>
| location = [[Birkenhead]], [[United Kingdom]] 
| coordinates = 
{{coord|53.39887|N|3.01964|W|region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SJ323896)|display=inline, title}}<!-- Note: WGS84 lat/long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref -->
| grid_ref_UK = SJ322895
| opened = 1847
| owner = [[Peel Holdings]]
| joins = [[Morpeth Dock]]
}}

'''Egerton Dock''' is a [[Dock (maritime)|dock]] at [[Birkenhead]], in [[England]]. The dock is situated between [[Great Float|East Float]] and [[Morpeth Dock]], within Birkenhead's dock system.

==History==
The dock was the second named as Egerton Dock along the Mersey, the first being the forerunner to [[Harrington Dock]].<ref>{{harvnb|McCarron|Jarvis|1992|pp=37, 48}}</ref> Named after Sir [[Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton]] who laid the foundation stone in October 1844, the dock was completed in 1847.<ref>{{harvnb|Ashmore|1982|p=156}}</ref> This was just prior to a suspension of the dock scheme, due to a financial crisis affecting the Birkenhead Dock Company.<ref name="Merseyside Views: Birkenhead Docks (page1)">{{citation|url=http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/|title=Birkenhead Docks (page1)|publisher=Merseyside Views|access-date=12 October 2007}}{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

The dock was originally accessible to shipping from the [[Great Float|East Float]] and via the [[Morpeth Dock]] entrance from the [[River Mersey]]. Both these passages have since been filled in, making both docks effectively [[landlocked]].<ref>{{citation|title=Birkenhead Docks|first=Ian|last=Collard|publisher=Tempus Publishing|date=2007|page=73|isbn=978-0-7524-4259-4}}</ref>

For the majority of its use, it served the [[London and North Western Railway|LNWR]] and [[Cheshire Lines Committee|CLC]] goods stations which adjoined the dock.<ref name="McCarron1992-37">{{harvnb|McCarron|Jarvis|1992|pp=37–38}}</ref> The LNWR had a warehouse, on the southern quayside, much used for storing [[banana]]s.<ref name="McCarron1992-37" /> The dock was partially filled in 1991,<ref name="McCarron1992-37" /> removing access from East Float.

== Egerton Bridge ==
[[File:Egerton Bridge (2) - geograph.org.uk - 291333.jpg|thumb|right|Egerton Bridge]]
'''Egerton Bridge''' is situated between Egerton Dock and Morpeth Dock and is a working example of a [[bascule bridge]]. It was built between 1928 and 1931, as one of four similar bascule bridges in the Merseyside docks, replacing an earlier [[swing bridge]]. The bridge and the machine house were completely restored in 1993 and opened to the public in 1995.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.wirral-mbc.gov.uk/art/insideoutside/project3.doc|title=The Birkenhead Dock System (art project)|publisher=Metropolitan Borough of Wirral|access-date=12 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108193959/http://www.wirral-mbc.gov.uk/art/insideoutside/project3.doc|archive-date=8 November 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Listed buildings in Birkenhead]]

==References==
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===Sources===
*{{cite book|title=The Industrial Archaeology of North-west England|first=Owen|last=Ashmore|date=1982|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719008207|oclc=8555887}}
* {{cite book| title=The Birkenhead Railway (LMS & GW joint)| year=2000| first=T.B. |last=Maund| publisher=RCTS| isbn=9780901115874|oclc=49815012}}
*{{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|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Commons category|Egerton Bridge}}
*[https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1201576 Entry on Historic England]
* {{mmukscaled|SJ323896|10|Map centered on Grid Ref SJ 323 896}}

{{Birkenhead docks}}

[[Category:Birkenhead docks]]
[[Category:Maritime transport in Merseyside]]