Runcorn, a flourishing river-port of Cheshire, on the Mersey, 12 m. SE. of Liverpool, at the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal; is an old place dating back to the 10th century; has excellent docks; industries embrace shipbuilding, iron-founding, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 20,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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