The River Weaver is a river, navigable in its lower reaches, running in a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, northern England.
From its source in the hills of west Cheshire near Peckforton Castle, it initially flows in a south-easterly direction towards the border with Shropshire, fed by tributaries some of which rise in north Shropshire. Just south of the Cheshire village of Audlem, the river then starts to flow approximately northwards across the Cheshire Plain, and today empties into the Manchester Ship Canal at Weston Point Docks, Runcorn (it previously flowed into the River Mersey).
From the Peckforton Hills, the Weaver flows through the village of Wrenbury, and then passes to the west of Audlem. The first significant town on the river is the small market town of Nantwich. Further north, it passes through Winsford, then Northwich, then flows north-west across north Cheshire, joining the Manchester Ship Canal between Frodsham and Sutton Weaver.
The River Dane is a river mainly in Cheshire in the north west England.
The river rises in Derbyshire, close to the source of the River Goyt just to the south west of Buxton, on Axe Edge Moor. Flowing south west, it forms the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire for around 10 miles before flowing west through Congleton and past Holmes Chapel.
The point on the river where the three counties meet, at Panniers' Pool Bridge, is called the Three Shires' Head.
Three Shires' HeadPassing just to the north of Middlewich it merges first with the River Croco near to the site of the old Roman fort in Harbutt's Field, and then with the River Wheelock near the aqueduct carrying the Trent and Mersey Canal, and runs the remaining five miles north to Northwich where it flows into the River Weaver.
The Trent and Mersey Canal is a 93.5 miles (150 km) long canal in the East Midlands, West Midlands, and North West of England. It is mostly a "narrow canal" (locks and bridges big enough for a narrowboat 72 feet long x 7 feet wide) but east of Burton on Trent, it is a wide canal (locks and bridges can accommodate boats 14ft wide).
As its name implies, the Trent & Mersey canal was built (opened 1777) to link the River Trent at Derwent Mouth (in Derbyshire) to the River Mersey. The second connection is made via the Bridgewater Canal, which it joins at Preston Brook in Cheshire.
A special feature on the Cheshire stretch of the canal is the Anderton Boat Lift. Until the construction of the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, it was the only operational boat-lift in the United Kingdom.
Confluence of the River Dane and the River Weaver
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