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Glasson Dock

England
List entry 1005091
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1005091
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
2.34 hectares
Grid reference
SD 44526 56080, SD 44438 56220
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Glasson Dock is a late eighteenth-century tidal dock constructed on the estuary of the River Lune in Lancashire. Built between 1787 and 1791, it was engineered to facilitate maritime trade by creating a deep-water harbour accessible to ocean-going vessels regardless of tidal conditions. The dock represents an important example of late Georgian commercial infrastructure and remains substantially intact, with its original stone quays and basin engineering surviving as testament to its construction period. The scheme was designed to enhance trade through the port of Lancaster by providing a sheltered anchorage and cargo-handling facilities connected to the developing canal network of northwest England.

Glasson Dock is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005091. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Glasson Dock?

Glasson Dock is a late eighteenth-century tidal dock constructed on the estuary of the River Lune in Lancashire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005091.

Who is responsible for protecting Glasson Dock?

Glasson Dock is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005091.

What other scheduled monuments are near Glasson Dock?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey (2.9 km), Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt's stained glass manufacturing workshops (6.4 km), High cross in St Peter's churchyard, Heysham (6.5 km).

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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
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Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
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Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Cockersand Premonstratensian Abbey
2.9 km
Glass melting and annealing workshop; part of Shrigley and Hunt's stained glass manufacturing workshops
6.4 km
High cross in St Peter's churchyard, Heysham
6.5 km
Part of a Roman fort and its associated vicus and remains of a pre-Conquest monastery and a Benedictine priory on Castle Hill
6.6 km
St Patrick's early Christian chapel and associated cemetery, Lower Heysham
6.6 km
Skerton Bridge
7.2 km
Torrisholme bowl barrow
8.3 km
High cross in St Wilfrid's churchyard, Halton
10.2 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Glasson Dock

Glasson Dock stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

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