A view of Wales from England, a sea wall and a lost sea! It may not be a spectacular view of Wales but in this case, it is the location on the Wirral in England were the picture was taken from which has an interesting feature. Parkgate has a sea wall and a typical seaside appearance to the buildings but the sea has long gone, as you can see from the pictures. As the Dee silted up even further, Parkgate became unusable as a port and was superseded by the Port of Liverpool, on the nearby River Mersey. Towards the end of the eighteenth century Parkgate was popular as a seaside resort with baths. But this diminished as the sands of the estuary were consumed with grass. With no beach and no direct access to the sea, Parkgate could manage only small subsistence from fishing and shrimps. The silting of the Dee has been accelerated by the deliberate introduction of the invasive colonising grass Spartina anglica in Connahs Quay in 1928, resulting in the growth of extensive marshlands. The tidal river Dee estuary is the official border between England and Wales. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkgate,_Cheshire
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:33:55 +0000