Ellesmere Port is an industrial town in the district of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cheshire, England, which was founded, as a title suggests, as an outlet to the sea from either Ellesmere, Shropshire and the Wales border area as much as Llangollen (via a canal then called a Ellesmere Canal). the town has a people of 64,100.

A Manchester Ship Canal joins the Mersey estuary north-west of Ellesmere Port at Eastham, but a town is too a northern terminus of the Shropshire Union Canal (which used to exchange goods sustaining sea-seafaring boats at what is okay, a boat museum). There are a total of holidaymaker attractions - the Boat Museum, the "Blue Planet" marine museum & a McArthur Glen Cheshire Oaks outlet village. the town is primarily industrial, existence dominated by a Shell oil refinery and an ICI chemical works, The town is too house to the Vauxhall Motors car manufacturing factory, noted for producing a Astra range of cars in the UK.

Ellesmere Port has the railway station with frequent electrical services to Liverpool and occasional trains to Helsby on the Chester to Warrington line, However there are okay, hearsay that Ellesmere Port Railway Station might turn into the terminus using trains just heading to Liverpool. These are too placed at a interchange of the M56 and the M53.

Ellesmere Port was about involved into a Merseyside borough of Wirral when that was formed in 1974. It was flushed from either a proposals prior to a Local Government Act 1972 had its first reading.

Famed population from either a town include a British deputy prime minister John Prescott, the football player Joe Mercer (who has the street known as fallowing him), infamous captive Charles Bronson and the singer Lee Latchford Evans.